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Sexual Vitality 


A Key to Health and Vigor 


A Compendium of Special Information Gathered 
from the Most Authoritative Sources, and Pre- 
sented in a Form Easily Understood 


Compiled by S. R. ARMSTRONG 


Published by 


THE VIM PUBLISHING CO. 
500 Fifth Avenue, New York. 


COPYRIGHTED, JANUARY, 1904 
BY 
THE VIM PUBLISHING COMPANY 
NEW YORE 


CONTENTS 


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CHAPTER I 
Necessity of Knowledge of Self 

Development of the Race—Theory of Natural Liv- 
ing Disproved—Nakedness and Early Sex-Familiar= 
ity Condemned—Primitive Man Vicious—The Bars 
Civilization Has Erected Against Degeneracy—Sex 
Reformers’ Theories. 

General View of the Sexual Function—Physiologi= 
cal Facts—Mechanical Arrangement of the Parts— 
The Phenomena of the Production of the Life Fluid 
—Its Effect Upon the Health—Normal Channels for 
Its Escape into the Circulation—Excesses to be 
Avoided. 


CHAPTER Ii 
Male Organs of Generation 


Nerve Connections of the Sexual System—Anat- 
omy of the Sexual Organs of the Male—The Penis 
—Description—Body of the Penis—Erectile Tissue 


685681 


of the Organ—Blood Vessels—Urethra—Prostate 
Gland—Glandular Secretions—The Testes—Scrotum 
—Vas Deferens—Spermatic Cord—Veins, Nerves 
and Blocd Vessels of this Part—the Semen—Sper= 
matozoa—Effects of Frequent Intercourse upon 


Spermatozoa. 


CHAPTER III 
Female Organs of Generation 

Names of the Chief Organs—The Mons Veneris— 
Labia Majora and Minora—The Clitoris—Seat of 
Sexual Pleasure in the Female—The Hymen— 
Causes that Destroy the Hymen—The Vagina— 
Length of the Normal Vagina—Its Structure and 
Description—Mucous Lining and Glandular System 
—The Uterus—General Description—Structural Of- 
fice of the Uterus—Glands and Their Offices—Blood 
Vessels—Appendages of the Uterus—The Ovaries— 
Weight, Size and Form—The Fallopian Tubes—The 
Ovum—Mammary Glands—Changes that Occur in 
Them. 


CHAPTER IV 
Functions of the Sexual Organs 


When Sexual Activity Begins—Changes that Oc- 
cur in Both Sexes—The Age of Puberty—Sexual 


Acts Detrimental until Complete Physical Growth 
is Achieved—How Sexual Vigor Manifests Itself— 
Instructions for Properly Directing this Energy— 
Radical Changes at Puberty in the Female—What 
they Entail—Internal Changes—Functional Changes 
—New Functions Appear—Menstruation—Theories 
of this Phenomena—Accompaniments of Menstrua- 
tion—Manifestations that Accompany the Function 
—What it Should be Normally—Cause of Irregulari= 
ties and Disturbances—Remedial Agencies and how 


to Employ Them. 


CHAPTER V 
Lust 

Normal Manifestations of Sexual Life—Forms of 
Expression—Real Foundation of All Sexual Ills— 
Lust and its Victims—The Cure for the Lust Malady 
—Characteristics of the Lust Disease—Disorderly 
Houses—What Statistics Reveal with Regard to 
Lust and Lust Diseases—Degenerates—The Destruc= 
tion ef Lust—Diseases that Surely Follow Lust— 
Venereal Diseases and Prostitution—Popular Ideas 
with Regard to Venereal Diseases—Effects of Ve= 
neréal Diseases Upon Women—Social Evils Due to 
Lust—How to Eradicate It from Your Mentality— 


Effect of Prostitution on General Public Health— 
General Infection—What Makes Prostitutes—Womz- 
en the Slaves of Lust—Erroneous Ideas of Virility— 


How to Begin the Cure of Lust. 


_ CHAPTER VI 
Results of Lust 
How Lust Reveals Itself—Secret Vice—The Great- 

est of Sexual Evils—Its Baneful Effects—What 
Mortality Reports Show—Some Alarming Figures— 
Theories of Prevention— Physiological Instruction 
Necessary—Best Methods are the Methods of Civil- 
ization—Blurting Out Frightful Indecencies to Im- 
mature Children No Way to Save Them from Vice— 
What Results from Following the Advice of Idiots— 
Proper Preventives—What Parents Should Do. 


CHAPTER VII 
Beginning of Physical Ruin 
Ignorance of Parents—Sexual Precocity of Chil- 
dren—A Mother’s Experience—Testimony of Educa- 
tors—Secret Vice the Most Destructive Evil Prac= 
tised—What It Produces—What a Boy Does Who 
Becomes a Victim to this Vice—What Seminal 
Losses Mean—Self-Abuse—Mental Diseases that 


Attend this Vice—Mistakes of Those Who Faii to 
Overcome the Habit—Proper Habits to Cultivate— 
Subterfuges—Worthless Advice of Physicians— 
Marriage No Infallible Remedy—First Steps Tow- 
ards Relief—Diet of Little Value—True Causes of 
Incontinence—Teachings of the Misguided—The 
Way of Escape. 


CHAPTER Vill 
Impairment of the Generative Function 

Disease is Manifested in Abnormal Conditions— 
Origin of Weakened Muscular Conditions—Obscure 
Nervous Disorders—Symptomis of Sexual Derange= 
ment—Drugs Pewerless—Nature’s Intent—Your 
Powers are as Nature Made Them—Do Not Think 
You can Make Them such as She Would Give to a 
Goat—No Hope for the Gross and Bestial Who Suf- 
fer from Sexual Derangement—The Desire for Ab- 


normal Powers Inconsistent with Sexual Health. 


CHAPTER IX 
The Things That Wreck 


Nervous System Master System of the Body—In=- 
tent of Nature with Regard te Other Parts of the 
Bedy—How Nervous Force is Lost—Things that 


Diminish Virility—The Intimate Connection Be=- 
tween the Mind and Sexual Power—Hypochondriacs 
—Belief in Weakened Virility Makes the Individual 
Impotent—A Physician’s Experience—Wrong Ideas 
at the Root of Most Supposed Cases of Impotency 
—Some Plain Truths—Popular Fallacies—Theories 
of Sexual Law—The Marital Relation—Human Mag-= 
netism—Nature Has Set the Limit of Indulgence— 
Excesses Mean Loss of Blood and Lowered Vitality 


—The Beneficial Marriage—Hygiene of Marriage. 


CHAPTER X 

Fool Theories 
Men Theorize About Everything—Some Crazy 
Ideas About Sex that have been Made Public—Cus 
rious Facts—Vice Flourishes Where Nudity and Sex 
Familiarity Exist—These Fanatical and Radical 
Sex Reformers Mostly Sexual Perverts—Limita- 
tions of Marital Intercourse—Physical Balance the 
Guide—Quacks and Nostrums—Aphrodisiacs Dan- 
gerous—Fakirs and Their Dupes—Strange Delusions 


of the Ancients—Follies of To-day. 


CHAPTER XI 

The Remedy 
The Only Remedy for the Lust Disease—What 
Drugs Do—Parents Should Learn One Important 


Truth—Habits to Cultivate—Appearance to Emulate 
—Become an Enthusiast in Sports—Health Depen- 
dent Upon Nutrition—General Exercise that is Bene= 
ficial—Special Treatment Needed—Special Exercises 
—IIlustrations and Complete Instructions for 
Strengthening the Sexual System—How to Employ 
these Exercises Remedially. 


CHAPTER XII 

Mental Poise 
Importance of Mental Attitude in Treating Ner= 
vous Disorders—One of the Essential Elements of 
Cure—How Mental Healing Works—First Steps in 
Mental Treatment—Wrong Ideas and Wrong Con- 
clusions to be Swept from the Mind—The Proper 
Mental Attitude—Little Drills for the Purpose of 
Securing Menta! Control of Yourself—How Auto- 
Suggestions are Made—Examples Illustrating Their 
Application—General Cultivation of the Mental At- 
titude—Experiments—Mental Drills—Concentration 


and What It Does—General Instructions. 


CHAPTER XIll 
Miscellaneous Notes 
Queries that Arise—Miscellaneous Information 


Connected with Sex—Hermaphroditism—Bi-Sexuals 


ity a Myth—Explanations of Apparent Bi-Sexualism 
—Sexual Degenerates—Strange Freaks that are the 
Products of Lust and Hereditary Mental Taints—- 
Curious Physiological Facts About These—Normal 
Sexual Vigor and Physical Development Not Co= 
related—Most Sexual Perverts Splendidly Devel- 
oped and Well Muscled—Questions that Perplex 
the Newly Married—Difficulty in Consummating the 
Marriage—General Advice—The Delicacy of the Re- 
lationship of Husband and Wife—Some Evils that 
Result from Ignorance and Selfishness—The Phe= 
nemena Attending Conception—Controlling the Sex 


of Offspring. 


CHAPTER XIV 

Sexual Hygiene 
Hints on Self-Treatment—Diet—Hydropathic Ap= 
plications—Habits Essential to Sexual Health— 
Colon Flushing—Directions for the Treatment of 
Acute Inflammations—Gonorrhea and Syphilis— 
Directions in Case of Local Swellings and Inflam- 


mations. 


CHAPTER XV 
Momentum-Inertia Exercises 


PREFACE 
This book is intended to supply the special in- 


formation so much needed by a vast class of men 
and women who have brought suffering on 
themselves through ignorance, and who in their 
efforts to acquire reliable information with re- 
gard to self and the care of their bodies, are made 
the victims ef schemes and worthless prepara- 
tions 

In previding a handbook on this important but 
tabooed, subject, great care has been taken to con- 
cisely present only the best and most reliable 
information along the lines of common inquiry. 
It has been our intent to make it plainly under- 
standable by all; and a handbook useful in the 
acquirement and maintenance ef that exquisitely 
balanced health, which makes life a joy, and 


existence one continual delight. 


FALSE THEORIES 
To do this we have found it necessary to ex- 


pose some of the fads and foibles ef persons, 


who have launched upon the wrong course. It 
has been necessary for us to present some phases 
of abnormality that do not exist in very many 
of the human species, but it is done for the pur- 
pose of enlightening and enabling our readers 
to rightly and thoroughly understand themselves, 
to know their powers, to know how to husband 
them, to understand the true secret of the regen- 
erative processes, and how to apply it. 

In this connection we must state flatly, for a 
large class of men who will read this book, that 
there is not a drug preparation known to 
medicine but that will aggravate their troubles. 
There is not an appliance made and sold, with 
the exception of the suspensory bandage, 
which will not still further weaken the organs, 
and the powers that are affected. 

If you aspire to true manhood, to good health, 
to strength, to the control of all your powers, 
the cure lies within yourself. It is something 
you may reach out your hand and take; but it 


is something that will have to be achieved by 


first understanding yourself, understanding the 
tremendous part the will plays in all your acts, 
and the application of that knowledge to the 
control of your physical and mental expenditure 


of energy. 


NATURE’S WAY 

Nature is a great mother. She works always 
towards the development and the extension of 
power; and life must be laid in accord with her 
law, for it is the only way along which restora- 
tion may be had. For those who have merely 
overworked themselves, who have drained their 
powers, and upon whom a mental disorder, due 
to the excesses they have indulged in, has fas- 
tened, there is not only hope, but absolute cer- 
tainty of a cure, if they will conferm to the 
methods of self-treatment set forth in the fol- 


lowing pages. 


SEXUAL VITALITY 


CHAPTER T: 
NECESSITY OF KNOWLEDGE OF SELF. 


Many writers who have hurriedly embarked 
upon the task of setting humanity right as to 
sexual hygiene, have argued that physical de- 
terioration is a fact, that longevity has been re- 
duced, and vitality lowered, as humanity has 
advanced in the scale of enlightenment and civi- 
lization, and that those habits and practices of 
luxury and vice, which all authorities recognize 
as the most potent factors in weakening and de- 
stroying, have marched apace with our strides 
forward in the development of material comforts 


and mental expansion. 


THE RACE GROWING STRONGER 
Wherever you find such a statement nail it 
as false. While struggling from primitive con- 


ditions of hardship and ignorance, the race has 


16 SEXUAL VITALITY 


been struggling as strenuously to escape from its 
heritage of vice bred in ignorance and days of 
license. We as a race are getting stronger, men- 
tally, morally and physically. We have had to 
overcome many things, and one of the worst in- 
fluences has been that theory of savagery, or 
natural life, so called, which produced ideal 


health and strength. 


THE HABITS OF NAKED SAVAGES 
DESTROY 


We have but to cite the reader the theory of 
“natural” living, disproved to the habits and con- 
ditions of those nations and races which still live 
the life of freedom, without morals, without men- 
tal brakes, without bodily comforts, just as the 
primitive man did. We find all the vices of hu- 
manity that is civilized there, and many that have 
been entirely eradicated from enlightened com- 
munities. We find that “undeveloped” people 
mature sooner, age quicker, and in the vast ma- 


jority of eases, die quicker than the civilized man. 


NECESSITY OF KNOWLEDGE OF SELF L7: 


And, if we turn to the pages of history, our 
scanning will reveal that from the remotest pe- 
riod that we have any records covering, there 
has been a constant advance. A development 
from a condition in which there were no morals, 
in which animal instincts only were followed, 
(and many that were worse than animal) towards 
the condition of intelligent, law regulated living, 
that enables the individual to achieve the degree 
of mental, physical and moral development shown 
to-day by the most advanced and conspicuous 


examples of our system. 


DO NOT EMULATE PRIMITIVE MAN 

We state these particulars merely to show the 
falsity of all claims on the part of the ill-advised 
and ignorant that nakedness, early and complete 
familiarity of the sexes with each other, the re- 
moving of the so-called mystery of sex, which 
certain writers have alleged that clothing and 


civilized habits of concealment have promul- 


18 SEXUAL VITALITY 


gated, would tend to eradicate sexual vice. All 


experience tends to prove that the very first steps 


taken away from vice and degenerating habits 
occurred when society as a whole took cognizance 
of the form and habits which have since become 
common practices. 

The primitive man, looming back there in 
myth, a gigantic shadow, which may have been 
a giant or a pigmy for what we know, is not the 
thing to point to and emulate. We must seek 
out types and ideals nearer at hand, and they 
must be found among the habits that mankind 
holds to-day. 

We shall go further in a later chapter and show 
that it is not nearly so much the habits of living, 
as the habits of thinking that cause degeneracy, 
that provide wrecks. And, without the moral 
guides, restrictions and bars which we have, it 
is horrible to contemplate what the mental at- 
titude towards sexual matters would soon be- 


come. We fear that if any of the theories of 


NECESSITY OF KNOWLEDGE OF SELF 19 


the so-called sexual reformers could be put into 
practice that in a very little while utter and 


complete annihilation of the race would result. 


THE NATURE OF THE SEXUAL 
SYSTEMS 

It is essential that every individual should 
know something about the physiological and ana- 
tomical structure of the procreative organs, as 
well as their functions. In general terms, the 
sexual organs of the male may be called the nether 
brain. In the nerves that emanate from them 
and enter into the structure of the testes, there is 
a larger percentage of the same sort of matter 
that is found in the brain than we find anywhere 
else in the body outside of the brain proper. 
The semen, or life fluid, is manufactured by sonie 
mysterious processes within the cells of the testes, 
and for this purpose, a supply of the best and| 
purest blood must be supplied direct from the 
heart. It is the accepted theory of the leading 


20 SEXUAL VITALITY 


scientists that where abnormal conditions have 
not been induced, the manufacture of semen 
from the blood occurs very slowly at all times, 


save when the individual is under strong sexual 


excitement, and that the mechanical arrange- 
ment of the parts provides for its slow reab- 
sorption into the blood current again. In sup- 
port of this theory it is cited that at the age of 
puberty, when the secretion first sets in, if the 
habits have been clean, and the life right, the 
only manifestations are those found in the change 
of voice, end growth of beard, and these new 
developments at this juncture are imputed to 
the highly concentrated matter secreted by the 
testes and reabsorbed by the blood. 


DELICATE NATURE OF THE ORGANS 

The exceedingly delicate structure of the sexual 
appartus is such, however, and the relation to the 
nervous system so intimate, that if habits of sen- 


suality have been established, the secretion goes 


NECESSITY OF KNOWLEDGE OF SELF | 


on faster than absorption can take place, and 
consequently there is a drain, either in inconti- 


nent emissions, or dreams. 


SEXUAL WEAKNESS BLOOD WEAKE- 
NESS 


The weakening effect of these cannot be over- 
estimated. The amount of blood necessary to 
produce the semen lost by one emission is such 
that drawing a gill direct from the arteries would 
not hurt one physically more; and where the evil 
habits are carried to the extent they sometimes 
are, the blood becomes watery, the patient anemic, 
and the nervous powers are entirely wrecked. 
The baneful effects of these disturbances are not 
confined to the locality of the sexual organs 
alone; although excesses always have a direct 
effect upon them; but the most potential for the 
health of the being occur in the brain. The 
nerve connections of the sexual system with the 
brain are extensive and complicated. Any ex- 


citement of the sexual system is instantly repro- 


22 SEXUAL VITALITY 


duced among the brain cells, and where the ex- 
citement is long continued, and of an unnatural 
order, there is a species of brain congestion set 
up that invariably results in weakened mentality 
and in many cases in pitiful forms of insanity. 
The asylums are full of hopeless idiots who 
were victims of self-abuse, and who literally 
robbed themselves of brains, vigor and health. 
And self-abuse alone is not the only thing that 
tends to produce these conditions. Excesses of any 
kind, allied with habits of using such stimulants 
as tobacco and liquor to excess, tend to produce 
the same results. They may be a little tardier 
in showing, but the physiological effects are 


practically the same, though of smaller degree. 


CHAP OE RATT: 
MALE ORGANS OF GENERATION. 


The male organs of generation, which, next 
to the brain and spinal column, possess the great- _ 
est quantity of nerves of any part of the human 
body, consist of the penis and the testes, with 


their appendages. 


THE PENIS 
The penis is the organ of copulation, and is 
divided, anatomically, into a root, body and ex- 
tremity, or glans penis. The root is broad and 
firmly connected to the lower part of the abdomi- 
nal wall by two fibrous processes, and a ligament, 


called the suspensory ligament. 


GLANS PENIS 
The extremity or glans penis, resembles an ob- 


tuse cone, with a vertical slit at its apex, termed 
23 


24 ILLUSTRATIONS 


Cross-section of the Penis. 


1. Dorsal vein.—z2. Dorsal arteries—3. Cor- 
pus cavernosum.—4. Tunica albuginea.—s5. Skin. 


—6. Corpus spongiosum.—7. Uretha. 


MALE ORGANS OF GENERATION 25 


the meatus urianus, which is the orifice of the 
urethra. At the back part of this orifice is a fold 
of mucous membrane, passing backward to a de- 
pressed raphe, termed the froenum prepuiu. The 
rounded projecting border of the base of the 
glands is termed the corona glandis; behind the 
corona is a deep constriction, the cervix. On 
each of these parts are numerous glands which 
secrete a sebaceous matter of peculiar odor. 

The body of the penis is covered by skin re- 
markable for its thinness and the absence of 
adipose tissue. When erect it becomes some- 
what triangular in form with rounded angles, 
the broadest side, called the dorsum, being up- 
ward. At the neck of the glans the integument 
leaves the surface of the penis and becomes 


folded upon itself, forming the prepuce. 


STRUCTURE 
The body of the penis is composed of erectile 


vissue, inclosed in three cylindrical compart- 


ments. Two of these compartments, the corpora 


26 SEXUAL VITALITY 


cavernosa, are arranged side by side along its 
upper part; the third, the corpus spongiosum, is 
placed below, and encloses the urethra, or canal, 
that extends the whole length of the penis. 
These parts of the penis present an intricate 
plexus of blood vessels, capable of receiving a 
large amount of blood in states of excitement and 
congestion. The arteries that supply this blood 
come from the internal pudic artery. It also pre- 
sents a very intricate arrangement of nerves, 
which also arise internally coming from the in- 
ternal pudic nerve. The organ has two sets of 
lymphatic vessels, one on the surface, and the 
other within. 

The male urethra extends from the neck of 
the bladder to the external opening at the ex- 
tremity of the glans penis. Its length, in adults, 
is usually eight or nine inches; its course has a 
double curve, when the organ is in a flaccid state, 


but when it is erect, it forms a single curve from 


MALE ORGANS OF GENERATION yen 


the opening of the bladder to the extremity of 
the organ. 

The urethra is divided by anatomists into 
three parts, or portions; the prostatic, the mem- 
branous and the spongy. The prostatic portion 
is the widest and most dilatable part, and passes 
through the prostate gland. It is about an inch 
and a quarter in length. Upon the floor of the 
canal at this point is a narrow ridge of tissue, 
which, when distended, serves to prevent the 
passage of semen backward into the bladder. 

The membranous portion of the urethra ex- 
tends between the apex of the prostate and the 
bulb of the corpus spongiosum. The spongy 
portion is the longest part of the urethra, and ex- 
tends from a little beyond where the organ leaves 
the body, to the extremity. The meatus urianus 
is the external orifice of the canal, and is the most 


constricted point in it. 


THE PROSTATE GLANYDD 
The prostate gland is a small glandular body, 


28 


ILLUSTRATIONS 


Bladder and 
Urethra. 


rt. Interior of 
bladder.—2. Ure- 
thra, its spongy 
portion.—3. Cor- 
pus cavernosum.— 
4. Fasso Navicul- 
oris.—5 5. Glans 
penis.—6 6. Sep- 
tum of corpus cav- 
ernosum.—7. Crus 
penis.—8 8. Pros- 
tate gland.—g 9. 
Cowper’s gland.— 
10’ 10." Uretetrs.— 
11, Meatus uri- 
omes.—12. Orifice 
of the ureters.—13. 
Orifices of ducts of 
Cowper’s gland. 


MALE ORGANS OF GENERATION 29 


surrounding the neck of the bladder, and the 
commencement of the urethra. In shape and size 
it resembles a horse-chestnut. It secretes a milky 
fluid, having an acid reaction. The gland fre- 
quently becomes enlarged, and its ducts filled 


with concretions, especially in old age. 


COWPER’S GLANDS 
Cowper’s glands are two lobulated bodies, each 


about the size of a pea, situated beneath the 
fore part of the membranous portion of the 
urethra. The excretory duct of each gland is 
nearly an inch in length, and they have minute 
openings on the floor of the urethra. They di- 
minish in size in advanced age. These glands 
and the prostate are accessory organs, and mainly 


produce mucous secretions. 


“THE TESTES 
The testes are the glandular organs which 


secrete semen. They are situated in the scrotum, 


being suspended from the body by the spermatic 


380 ILLUSTRATIONS 


The Testis. 


I. Testis. — 2. 
Head of epedidy- 
mis.—3. Body of 
same.—4. Tunica 
vaginalis.—s. Cre- 
master.— 6. Ar- 
tery of spermatie 
cord.—z7. Sper- 
matic cord .—8. 


Tail of epididymis. 


MALE ORGANS OF GENERATION 3h 


cord, and surrounded by a coating of integument, 
which, with its various layers, blood vessels, 
etc., is called the scrotum. At the back of each 
testis is a small flattened body, termed the epi- 
didymis. The testes are compound tubular 
glands, with numerous lobules, estimated at from 
250 to 400. Each lobule is of a conical shape, 
the base being directed toward the circumference 
of the organ. The tubes may be separately un- 
raveled by careful dissection. Their diameter is 
from one-two-hundredth to one-one-hundred-and- 
fiftieth of an inch. The openings of these tubules 
become convoluted at their apices, and unite to 
form twenty to thirty larger ducts, which are 
called the vasa recta. These pass upward and 
backward, to form a number of ducts varying 
from 12 to 20, which carry the seminal fluid from 
the testes to the epididymis. 

The Vas Deferens is a continuation of the 
epididymis, and is the true excretory duct of the 


testis. It ascends along the inner side of the 


32 ILLUSTRATIONS 


Testicle and Epididymis of the Human 
Subject. 


A. Testicle. B 
Fig, & B BB. Lobules 
g of testicle—C C. 
i* Vasa Recta. —D 
+ D. Rete testes.— 
E E. Vas efferen- 
tia.--F F F. Cones 
of the globus ma- 
jor of the branches 
of the spermatic 
artery to the tes- 
ticle and epididy- 
mis. —— Na NaN. 
Ramification of 
the artery upon 
the testicle. — O. 
Deferential ar- 
tery.—P. Anosto- 
mosis. 


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Vertical Section of the Bladder, Penis and 
Urethra. 


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84 SEXUAL VITALITY 


testis, through the spermatic canal to the inner 
abdominal ring. Its walls are very thick, but — 
the canal exceedingly small, measuring but half 


a line. 


THE SPERMATIC CORD 

The spermatic cords which, as has been 
stated, suspend the testes from the body are com- 
posed of arteries, veins, nerves, lymphatics and 
the vas deferens. They extend from the internal 
abdominal ring to the back of the testes. The 
left cord is usually longer than the right, which 
causes the left testicle to hang lower than the 
right. 

The seminal vesicles are two membranous 
pouches between the base of the bladder and the 
rectum. They serve as reservoirs for the semen, 
and secrete a fluid which is mixed with that of 
the testicles. Each vesicle consists of a single 
tube coiled upon itself. 


The ejaculatory ducts, one on each side, are 


MALE ORGANS OF GENERATION 85 


formed by the conjunction of the vesicula and 


vas deferens. 


THE SEMEN 
The semen is a thick, whitish fluid, having a 


peculiar odor. It consists of a fluid portion, 


called the liquor seminis, and solid particles, 


termed spermatazao. 

The spermatazoids are the essential elements of 
impregnation. These spermatazoa are each about 
one-five-thousandth of an inch long, one eight- 
thousandth of an inch broad, and one-twenty-five- 
thousandth of an inch thick. They each have 
the power of moving, and under the microscope 
their movements in the liquor seminalis may be 
plainly observed. The seminal fluid, during 
adult life, always contains these spermatazoa, 
though their number varies greatly according to 
circumstances. If sexual intercourse be frequent 
the number of spermatazoids in the seminal fluid 
becomes greatly diminished, and in some cases, 
almost entirely absent. From careful compari- 


86 _ SEXUAL VITALITY «._.. 


sons and experiments it has been deduced by-some 
European scientists that the average number. of 
spermatazoids in one ejaculation of semen of 
an adult man is 226,257,000. Although Nature 
is thus bounteous in providing the necessary ele- 
ments for the perpetuation of life, continued 
sexual indulgence invariably causes the number 
to diminish, and sometimes to become absent 
altogether. Children begotten of fathers who 
are sensualists, are, as a general thing, weak 
and far from the finest form, and less highly en- 
dowed mentally and physically, than offspring be- 
gotten by men who preserve their vitality and 
vigor, and keep themselves in condition to en- 
dow their offspring with all their finer and higher 


attributes. 


CHAPTER IIL. 


FEMALE ORGANS OF GENERATION. 


The sexual organs of woman are the Mons 
Veneris, the Labia Majora, the Labia Minora, the 
Clitoris, the Vagina, the Uterus, the Fallopian 
tubes and the Ovaries. 

The Mons Veneris is the prominence in front 
of the pubes, and at the period of puberty is 
covered with hair. It consists of a collection of 


adipose matter beneath the skin. 


LABIA MAJORA 
The Labia Majora are the longitudinal cutane- 
ous folds, extending from the Mons Veneris. to 
the perineum and enclosing the sexual: opening. 
They are formed externally of integument cov- 
ered with hair, and internally of mucous mem- 
brane. Within the lower part of this opening is 
87 


838 ILLUSTRATIONS 


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\, Ly 


Section of the Female Pelyis, showing posi- 
tion of the organs. 


FEMALE ORGANS OF GENERATION 89 


a transverse fold of mucous membrane, called the 
fourchette, and which is commonly ruptured in 
the first birth. 


LABIA MINORA 

The Labia Minora are two small folds of 
mucous membrane within the Labia Majora, ex- 
tending from the clitoris downward and outward 
for about an inch and a half on each side of the 
opening of the vagina. They are provided with 
numerous large mucous crypts, which secrete se- 
baceous matter in abundance. The structure and 
situation of these seem very clearly to indicate 
that it is to press the clitoris more firmly upon 
the dorsum of the penis in the act of coition, and 
also, perhaps, to compress in some degree the 
male organ. Sexual pleasure upon the part of 
the female depends to a ereat extent upon the 


vigor and intensity of this tissue. 


THE CLITORIS 


The clitoris is a small erectile structure, and 


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The Vulva—External female organ of gen- 
eration. 


FEMALE ORGANS OF GENERATION 41 


regarded as the principal organ of sexual pleas- 
ure in the female, for which purpose it is plenti- 
fully supplied with nerves. It is situated a little 
back of the meatus urianus, and is partly hidden 
between the folds of the Labia Minora. Its body 
is hidden beneath the labia, and its free extremity, 
termed the glan clitoridis, is a small rounded 
tubercle, consisting of spongy erectile tissue, and 
is highly sensitive. 

The opening of the female urethra is situated 
just back of the clitoris, and near the orifice of 
the vagina. A prominent elevation of mucous 


membrane surrounds it. 


THE HYMEN 
The hymen is a thin fold of mucous membrane 
extending across the lower part of the orifice of 
the vagina. Sometimes this membrane is thick 
and tough, retarding the discharge of the men- 
strual fluid, and proving a successful barrier to 


sexual intercourse. The hymen is often de- 


42 SEXUAL VITALITY 


stroyed by disease, and other causes, and is by 
no means to be considered a proof of virginity. 

The glands of Bartholine are analogues of the 
Cowper’s glands of the male. They are situated 
at each side of the opening of the vagina. 

Each gland is about the size of a horse bean, 
and opens through a single duct just within the 
labia minora. They are surrounded by a plex- 


ous of veins. 


THE VAGINA 
The vagina is a membranous canal lying in 


the centre of the pelvis. Its direction is curved 
forward and downward. Its length is about four 
inches along its anterior wall, and five or six 
inches along its posterior wall. It is narrow and 
constricted at its commencement, but becomes 
dilated near the uterine extremity. It is attached 
to the neck of the uterus a little above the mouth 
of the womb, so that the mouth of the womb pro-. 
jects a short distance into the vaginal canal. Its 


structure consists of an external muscular coat, 


FEMALE ORGANS OF GENERATION 43 


a layer of erectile tissue, and an internal mucous 
coat, or lining. The erectile tissue is more 
abundant at the lower than at the upper part of 
the vagina. The mucous lining of the vagina 
is continuous above with that which lines the 
uterus, and below with the integument which 
covers the labia majora. There are numerous 
ridges, or ruguae, lying along the posterior part 
of the vagina, especially near the orifice. These 
are more pronounced in females who have never 


given birth to children. 


THE UTERUS 

The uterus is properly the organ of gestation. 
Its office is to retain and support the fecundated 
ovum during the period of development of foetal 
life. In the virgin state it is pear-shaped, oc- 
cupying that part of the pelvic cavity lying be- 
tween the bladder and the rectum, measuring 
two and a half to three inches in length, two 
inches in breadth and about an inch in thickness. 


At its vaginal extremity is a transverse aperture, 


44 ILLUSTRATIONS 


£ 


—_———37 Se ee 
Fig. 21. Virgin Uterus. 
A. ANTERIOR VIEW. 1. Body.—2, 2. Angles. 
—3. Cervix.—4. Site of the internum.—5. Vagi- 
nal portion of the servix.—6. External os.—7, 7. 
Vagina. 

B. MeEpIAN SEcTION. 1, I. Profile of the 
posterior surface.—2. Vesico-uterine cul de sac. 
—3, 3. Profile of the posterior surface.—4. Body. 
—5. Neck.—6. Isthmus.—7. Cavity of the body. 
—8. Cavity of the cervix.—g. Os Internum.—1o. 
Anterior lip of the os externum.—11. Posterior 
lip.—12, 12 Vagina. 

C. TRANSVERSE SECTION. 1. Cavity of the 
body.—2. Lateral wall—3. Superior wall.—4, 4. 
Cornua.—5. Os internum.—6. Cavity of the cer- 
vix.—7. Arbor vitae of the cervix.—8. Os ex- 


ternum.—9, 9. Vagina, 


FEMALE ORGANS OF GENERATION 45 


called the os uteri, or mouth of the womb, bound- 
ed by an anterior lip, which is thick, and a pos- 
terior one, long and narrow. The cavity of the 
uterus is comparatively small, the upper portion 
corresponding to the body of the organ, being 
triangular. The structure of the uterus consists 
of three coats. The external is serous, the mid- 
dle muscular and the internal mucous. The chief 
weight and bulk of the organ is due to the muscu- 


lar coat. 


STRUCTURE OF THE ORGANS 
The mucous lining of the uterus is continuous, 


through the fallopian tubes with the peritoneum, 
and through the mouth of the womb with the 
mucous lining of the vagina. Around the mouth 
of the womb are numerous follicles and glands, 
all of which excrete into the vagina. 

The uterus is remarkably rich in arteries, 
which are peculiar by reason of their tortuous 
course. The veins are large and correspond in 


arrangement with the arteries, In an impreg- 


ILLUSTRATIONS 


46 


The Uterus and Its Appendages. 


FEMALE ORGANS OF GENERATION 47 


nated state the veins are termed the “uterine 
sinuses.” 

During the menstrual period, which begins at 
puberty and ends at between forty and fifty in 
the woman’s life the uterus becomes enlarged, 
and during pregnancy it increases in weight to 


from two to three pounds. 


UTERINE APPENDAGES 
The appendages of the uterus are the fallopian 


tubes, the ovaries and their ligaments. The 
fallopian tubes are the oviducts which connect 
the ovaries with the womb. Each oviduct is 
about four inches in length, and extends from 
each superior angle of the uterus to the ovaries. 
The canal, or opening, running through these 
“tubes is very small. Near the ovary each tube 
widens into a trumpet-shaped extremity. The 
Ovarian orifice is surrounded by fringe-like pro- 


cesses, termed fimbriae. 


THE OVARIES 
The ovaries are oval-shaped, and in structure 


48 dye ILLUSTRATIONS 


M... Pubes—A A. Hypogastric arteries, sper- 


matic vessels and nerves behind the ovaries.— 
B. Bladder—L L. Round ligaments.—U. 
‘Uterus—T a Fallopian tubes—F. Fimbri- 
ated extremity of tubes.—B. Broad ligament of 
the uterus—O O. Ovaries.—R. Rectum.—G. 


Right ureter—C. Utero-sacral ligaments. 


ILLUSTRATIONS 49 


Uterine Cavity 


Section of the uterus about eight days after 
impregnation. A. Cervix or neck of the womb.— 
B B. Orifices of the fallopian tubes.—C. Decidua 


vera.—D. Cavity of the uterus. 


50 SEXUAL VITALITY 


quite analagous to the male testes. Each ovary 
is about an inch and a half long, and three quar- 
ters of an inch in thickness, and they weigh from 
one-eighth to one-quarter of an ounce. The 
structure of the ovary is spongy. It contains a 
number of small cells, traversed by blood vessels. 
In the meshes of this structure are many small 
sacs, containing ova in various stages of develop- 
ment, and these are called the Graafian vesicles. 
In women who have not borne children they — 
vary in number from ten to twenty,,and in size 


from that of a pin’s head to the size of a pea. 


THE OVA 
The ovum, or egg, from which life is devel- 
oped, is exceedingly minute, measuring one-two- 
hundredth of an inch in diameter, and consists 
of an external covering of transparent substance, 
and internally of a small viscid body, imbedded 


in a substance somewhat similar to the yolk of an 


egg. 


ILLUSTRATIONS 


Ovum Entering the Uterus, 


‘61 


52 SEXUAL VITALITY ’ 
MAMMARY GLANDS 

The mammary glands belong to the reproduc- 
tive system. Their office is to supply food in its 
fluid form until the teeth of the infant are suff- 
ciently developed to enable it to masticate solid 
aliment. They exist in a rudimentary state in 
the male, and when excited by peculiar circum- 
stances have been known to secrete milk. 

They are situated in the pectoral region, ex- 
tending from the middle of the sternum to the 
arm-pit. They are of small size before puberty, 
but are enlarged as the generative organs become 
more developed. They increase in size during 
pregnancy, and enlarge very rapidly after de- 
livery. They become atrophied in old age. 

Near, and a little below the centre of each 
mamma, its outer surface presents a small conical 
prominence, the nipple, which is surrounded by 
an areola, having a colored tint. Before im- 
pregnation the color is crimson, or a delicate 


pink; after impregnation it deepens and assumes 


ILLUSTRATIONS 


Uterus Nearly Filled with the Ovum. 


68 


$4. SEXUAL VITALITY 


a brownish hue, which after the birth of a child 
continues through life. The nipple consists of 
numerous vessels, which form a kind of erectile 
tissue, intermixed with muscular fibre. 

The areola is provided with sebaceous glands, 
which secrete a substance of fatty consistence for 
the protection of the delicate covering of the 


nipple. 


CHAPTER Iv: 
THE FUNCTIONS OF THE SEXUAL ORGANS. 

Functional activity is not manifest in either 
the male or female sexual organs of the human 
being during the first sixth of its normal life, or 
until about the 12th to the 15th year. Then the 
sexual life begins, and its beginning is indicated 
by various constitutional changes and external 
manifestations. 

The changes that mark the beginning of such 
activity in the male, while they themselves are 
permanent, are not such as affect the physiologi- 
cal nature to any extent, and they do not cause 
the individual any degree of discomfort or an- 
noyance. On the other hand, the changes that 
then take place in the female, are themselves 
of the gravest character, and they introduce pe- 
riodic functions of the organs, that continue to 
occur during the sexual life of the being, and 

55 


56 SEXUAL VITALITY 


which play a very important part in the individ- 


ual’s general health and character. 


PUBERTY 
Among all civilized nations, of temperate cli- 


mates, the period of sexual maturity or puberty 
arrives between the years of 12 and 16. Up to 
that time the boy is merely a boy. He has a pip- 
ing, feminine voice, his face is smooth, and his 
form is slender and graceful. Then his voice 
changes to bass, hair begins to grow on the face, 
under the arms and on the pubic region of the 
abdomen; the frame fills out, muscles begin to 
develop, and the youth rapidly ripens into a man. 
When the age of puberty arrives the male is 
then capable of becoming a father, but it does 
not signify that the function should be exer- 
cised. At that period the body is still far from 
mature. The bones have not hardened; the 
growth has not been completed, and the brain is 
far from its adult size, or form. It follows that 


any child begot at that period (and observation 


THE FUNCTIONS OF THE SEXUAL ORGANS 57 


bears out the truth of this assumption) would be 
of an inferior type, and incapable of resisting 
disease to such an extent, or developing into the 
finer types that are the children of mature parents. 
Observation of the most careful and painstaking 
sort, also prove that sexual gratification at the 
period from the appearance of puberty, until the 
body has reached its growth is detrimental, and 
is without the intents and design of nature. 
Hundreds of youths stunt their physical and men- 
tal powers by illicit indulgence at these early 
periods, and scores in every community bring 


disease and early death to themselves through 
their folly. 


MANIFESTATIONS 
There always begins at this first period of 
sexual activity, increased energy. The testes 
will produce semen under stimulation, and it is 
the period for the youth to be put in the way of 
starting upon his career in life. His calling 
should be fixed by that time, and the newly de- 


58 SEXUAL VITALITY 


veloped energies that will begin to be manifested 
should have this channel to escape into, instead 
of being fed on idleness, and lead the individual 


to habits of sensuality and destruction. 


CHANGES IN THE FEMALE AT 
PUBERTY 


In our country the female reaches the age of 
nubility or puberty at ages varying from twelve 
to fifteen years. The changes that appear in the 
external form of the individual are some- 
what similar in character to those that appear in 
the male. The form begins to round out, fatty 
cells, in groups, develop about the neck and 
shoulders, and on the abdomen, and the form of 
womanhood is slowly developed from the straight 
simplicity of girlhood; and there are growths of 
hair under the arms and in the pubic region, and 


the breast begins to appear. 


INTERNAL CHANGES 
But these are the mere external manifestations. 


Internally more tremendous changes have taken 


THER FUNCTIONS OF THE SEXUAL URGANS 59 


place. At this time, the ovaries begin to ripen 
an ovum each month, and this they keep up with 
varying interludes, until the menupause, which oc- 
curs at about the 45th year. When the ovum is 
matured in the ovary, it is forced down through 
the Fallopian tube, into the womb, where it is 
either impregnated by the spermatozoaof the male 
(if intercourse occurs at the proper time) or, 
after being preserved there for an indeterminate 
period, it passes out of the body, and the pro- 
cess of maturing another ovum goes on. If the 
ovum that is sent down to the uterus is impreg- 
rated, there will not be another matured until the 
period of gestation and lactation is complete, but 
if such impregnation does not occur within 
twenty-eight days, or one lunar month, another 
evum will be matured, and it will descend to the 
uterus. | 

Following this monthly development and fall- 


ing of the ovum, there comes a peculiar physio- 


60 SEXUAL VITALITY 


logical condition throughout the sexual tract of 


the female. 


MENSTRUATION 
All the blood vessels, capillaries, and veins, that 


feed the tract, and especially those that lie with- 
in the membranes that line the Fallopian tubes, 
the uterus, and the vagina, become engorged and 
greatly swollen. The parts themselves are en- 
larged, and in most cases this engorgement re- 
sults in the bursting of many of the capillaries 
of the mucous lining, and there is a discharge of 
blood and mucous from the organs, for a period 
of from three to five days. 

There have been a variety of theories advanced 
on the subject of menstruation. A great many 
competent persons hold now that it is not a nat- 
ural function; that the engorgement and burst- 
ing of blood vessels, and consequent loss of 
blood, and loss of energy accompanying the func- 
tion, is something that has been acquired by our 


women through years of artificial habits, and ar- 


THE FUNCTIONS OF THE SEXUAL ORGANS 61 


tificial living. In support of this theory they 
cite us to the habits and conditions of the woman 
of such savage tribes as live out of doors, and 
lead very active lives. With them the function 
is almost devoid of pain and discomfort, and 
there is no loss of blood. They go further, and 
show that even among domesticated animals there 
is a tendency on the part of the female to develop 
the menstrual phenomenon, even when it does 
not exist in the wild types of the same species. 
However this may be among the women of 
civilized nations, it is a universal occurrence. It 
begins when the individual arrives at the age 
of puberty and continues, with only such in- 
terruptions as are afforded by illness, or impreg- 


nations, until the period of fertility is over 


PHENOMENA 
There is a very wide difference in its mani- 


festation among women. Some experience very 
slight discomfort from the function, and lose 


very little blood, others are really seriously ill 


62 SEXUAL VITALITY 


for a period of varying length, and flow exces- 
sively. Under normal conditions, as they relate 
to the beings of to-day, the function should not 
occasion any great degree of pain, and should 
not be accompanied by any loss of vitality or 
energy. Unfortunately such examples are the 
exception instead of the rule among the women 
of our day. The disturbances due to this func- 
tion, and the ills that result, are the most common 
the physician has to treat, and a woman free 
from them is an exceptional type. 

This brings us to the subject of the irregular- 
ities that occur in this connection. There are 
three forms of abnormality, which should be un- 
derstood, and care taken to avoid, or remedy, 
if they have appeared. 


MENSTRUAL IRREGULARITIES 
These are, deficient menstruation, excessive 


flowing, and painful menstruation. All of them 
are the results of the habits and environment of 


the individual., Nine-tenths of such irregular- 


THE FUNCTIONS OF THE SEXUAL ORGANS 68 


ities may justly be imputed to the habits of dress 
of women. Any form of dress that continually 
tends to hinder, or stop the free circulation of 
blood in the pelvic region, is a potent factor in 
producing one form or the other of these irreg- 
ularities. Diet and occupation have much to 
do with it. Deficient menstruation may be traced 
in almost every instance to deficient nutrition, 
due either to ignorance of the proper foods to 
eat, inability to secure them, or the inability of 
the digestive apparatus of the individual to prop- 


erly prepare the food that is eaten. 


REMEDIAL AGENCIES 
Habits of exposing the body to unwonted 


changes of temperature, uncleanliness, lack of ex- 
ercise, etc., all play their part in bringing about 
such conditions. Whatever the form of abnor- 
mality is, it should not be permitted to go along 
unremedied. Graver troubles invariably follow. 


The best remedial measures we can recommend, 
are included in the lines of exercise, frequent 


64 SEXUAL VITALITY 


bathing, and the adoption of a wholesome, nu- 
tritious diet. For the purpose of exercising, the 
patient may adopt those given in a separate chap- 
ter, for the stimulation of the sexual tract, tak- 
ing as many of them as possible in a reclining 
position, and stopping the exercises as soon as 
the first indication of approaching menstruation 
occurs, and not beginning them again, until the 
signs have disappeared. A few months of this 
training, and plenty of out-of-door exercise, 
walking, etc., will remedy the most stubborn case 


of irregularity. 


CHAPTER V. 
LUST. 

The law of sexual intercourse,as demonstrated 
in the light of the world’s experience, and the ex- 
perience of individuals, is that it should be con- 
tingent upon the desire of two persons capable of 
begetting and bearing children to live together 
in the bonds of wedlock. That should be the 
sum total of its expression, but oriental vices, 
lascivious literature, general ignorance on the 
subject, and morbid curiosity have resulted in en- 
dowing the sexual nature of most perzons with 
a secondary and lustful characteristic. 


THE CAUSE OF SEXUAL DiEKRANGE- 
MENT 


This is the real foundation of all sexual ills 
and derangements, and is itself a derangement 
of the mental bearings in the individual. Lust, 
whether it is the sort that leads the uncot:trolled 


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66 SEXUAL VITALITY 


negro to assault and outrage an infant, or merely 
the kind that prompts the thoughtless young man 
to go prowling in the night, seeking the haunts 
of those who pander to lust, is the same, and is — 
a sign of disease, of departure from the well-bal- 
anced organism in both. This was first recog- 
nized as a form of physical and moral disease as 
far back as the time of Chaucer. 

It follows, therefore, that in order to effect a 
cure in a great many of those obscure ailments 
that arise in and through the wrong use of the 
sexual system, must be dependent upon the 
cleansing of the mind of the rust and dust of 
lust, that has been permitted to cumber it, to the 


individual’s great injury. 


THE ‘«* LUST DISEASE’ 
This “lust disease,’ which affects every one, to 


a greater or less extent, is the thing that every in- 
dividual should recognize and seek to combat. 
With it being fed by habits of thinking, the 


literature one reads, the plays one sees, the food 


LUST 67 


one eats, there is a very grave condition confront- 
ing every one who would seek to increase the 
manliness of the race, and to curtail its vice. 
This lust disease is the great enemy of all 
races at the present time. Its loathsome char- 
acteristics underlie all the causes that reform 
would remove. It is back of the disorderly 
houses, back of prostitution, back of divorce, and 
all the ills that threaten and attack society, just 


as it is the primary cause and producer of half 


the physical ills that threaten the physical well ~ 


being of the race. 

No work on this subject would be complete 
that ceased at giving the anatomical and physio- 
logical description of the sexual organism. The 
individual must be schooled beyond knowing the 
physiological names and functions of the sexual 
system; he must be taught its psychological as- 
pects and the tremendous havoc being played by 
this disease of the sexual nature—omnipresent 


lust. 


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WHAT VITAL STATISTICS SHOW 

Those who live in our cities and are familiar 
with the police court history and political history 
of their cities are aware of what a tremendous 
part lust, and its instruments, the prostitute and 
disorderly resorts, play in the economical rela- 
tions of the city’s government. 

Very few are aware of the pathological part it 
plays. In a general way people realize that very 
lustful men and women are in some way a menace 
to good society, to good manners and good habits 
and that their practices are odious, and they are 
kept out of the best circles of society as much as 
possible. Once in a while one creeps in who is 
thus tainted, and sooner or later there is a scan- 
dal which does much to disrupt homes, friend- 
ships, and leaves a trail of lasting infamy and 


dishonor. 


DIRECTIONS IN WHICH LUST WORKS 
DESTRUCTION 


This is but one direction the lust disease works 


for evil. It has its physical evils, as well as its 


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moral, if those are not enough to deter one from 
giving way to this mental disorder, instead of 
seeking in every way to curb it and bring it 
within the limits Nature intended it to be exer- 
cised. 

In a previous chapter, where we attempted to 


show the powers and limitations of the sexual 
organs, it was hinted that wherever lustful sway 
was given to the mind and the individual at- 
tempted unlimited gratification of his sexual de- 
sires that physical harm would result. We shall 
go into this in another chapter. Just here we 
wish only to present the horrors that arise 
through the institution of prostitution, which is 
the peculiar channel of lust, and against which 


our readers can not be warned too emphatically. 


OTHER DISEASES FOLLOW 


Physicians have raised their voices against the 
practices of prostitution from the time they first 
began to realize the weakening effects of certain 


diseases that were invariably accompaniments of 


70 SEXUAL VITALITY 


it. How these diseases originated no one knows. 
That they have existed from very ancient times 
is attested by the writings of all countries and 
all people; and their general prevalence to-day 
is shown by the health statistics of the country, 
by the reports of all the hospitals (without inquir- 
ing into the myriads of cases where the disease, 
and the disgrace that goes with it, are both hid- 
den away by the individual), to be a perpetual 
menace to the health of every person who comes 
in contact with the afflicted, either in a sexual 
way, or by merely living in the same premises, 
drinking from the same vessels, eating from the 
same dishes, or using any article that has been 


worn or used by the infected. 


DISEASES OF PROSTITUTION 
Careful observation of the prostitutes of the 


tity of New York, made during a number of 
years by a physician who was connected with one 
of the charity hospitals, where they invariably 
drift, furnishes ground for the belief that possibly 


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not five per cent. of the women who become pros- 

titutes, and instruments for the satisfaction of 
the lust of the male portion of the population 
escape infection of venereal diseases. 

Any one who has ever seen any form of vene- 
real disease, whatever popular report may say 
to the contrary, would certainly spurn with hor- 
ror every possibility of infection. 

In the popular mind, syphilis is as great a bug- 
a-boo as one could possibly desire it to be. If 
men suffering from the lust disease could be 
made to know that probably eight-tenths of the 
women who render their bodies for service, for 
hire, are syphilitics, they would possibly think 
twice before engaging in the debasing liaison. 
What is not generally known outside of the medi- 
cal profession, however, is that of the two dis- 
eases, gonorrhoea, which the ignorant very fre- 
quently describe as being not much worse than 
a bad cold, is as bad in its way as syphilis. It is 


certain that once a person is infected by gonor- 


72 SEXUAL VITALITY 


rhoea, he can never completely remove the ef- 
fects of that infection. He may be rendered 
sufficiently clear to be free from infecting an- 
other, but somewhere in his system the ravages 
of the gonococci, the microscopic creatures that 
are the accompaniments of this disease, have 
left their mark, and they will make their visit 
known from time to time throughout the life of 
the individual. 

EFFECTS OF VENEREAL DISEASES 

In the case of a woman the effects are still more 
complicated. A woman once infected with gon- 
orrhoea is never completely clean again. She 
is the woman with an issue of the scriptures, and 


she is to be let alone. She will, if she marries, 
run the risk of never bearing children, and if 


she does bear them, they will possibly be diseased 


from birth, deformed, blind, deaf or dumb. Thus 
Nature curses for the violation of her laws. Thus 
deeply and irremediably does the lust disease 


work toward the physical destruction of its vic- 


LUST. 73 


It is the concensus of opinion of the most care- 
ful observers that lust is the product of laziness, 
and the vicious habits that go with a brain that 
is not permitted to expend energy in the direction 
of producing something, of creating something 
good, beautiful or beneficial. 

Prostitution confronts society wherever you go. 
It is the phase the lust disease manifests itself 
by among adults. Hide it away, whisper of it, 
attempt to smother it as we will, there is not a 
- community on earth that you can go into to-day 
that it does not drag its slimy body over the 
homes and lives of the people. It has made 
wars, caused the downfall of nations and done 
more to spread disease and death through the 
earth than any other cause the mind can imagine. 
A learned writer on the subject, after making 
its ravages and its causes the study of years, 


- said of it: 


SOCIAL EVILS DUE TO LUST 


“The evil is so notorious that none can possibly 


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gainsay it. But when its extent or causes are 
questioned a remarkable degree of ignorance or 
carelessness is manifested. Few care to know 
the secret springs from which prostitution ema- 
nates; few are anxious to know how wide the 
stream extends; few have any desire to know the 
devastation it causes. It is an unseen evil,of which 
only the effects are visible. It has all the im- 
agined force of a monster, because of its obscur- 
ity, all the avenging powers of a fiend, because 
its true powers are hidden. It is unmanageable 
because concealed. Stripped of the veil of ob- 
scurity, it appears as a hideous vice, arising from 
the abnormal impulses on the part of one sex, 
fostered by the confiding weakness in the other.” 

And this vice, which can not be smothered by 
public sentiment, which can not be eradicated by 
legal measures, which all the human powers have 
been directed against, at one time or another, 
stands red-handed close beside the door of every 


home and claims its victims by the millions. 


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The seeds of it were planted back in the em- 
bryo, and the proper steps were never taken to 
SO guide and develop the growing being that its 
influences might be overcome and the natural 
consequences changed. In any treatise on the 
subject of the sexual organs and their relations 
to health this subject must invariably obtrude it- 
self. It is the channel of the most terrible havoc, 
next to the wasting diseases that follow the prac- 
tice of secret and unnatural vices. 

If we take the city of New York, for example, 
we can readily understand the important part 
prostitution plays in the matter of sexual health 
and hygiene. There are literally thousands of 
prostitutes in that city. They are of every de- 
gree and nationality, and the vices they practice 
and disseminate are of every conceivable kind. 
Of all these thousands of unfortunate women, 
who offer themselves as panderers to the lust of 
men, there is probably a very, very small per- 


centage that is not diseased. Their calling en- 


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tails sexual diseases, and those of the gravest 
nature. They spread the seeds of infection rap- 
idly, and every physician with a private practice, 
every surgeon in charge of a hospital, will tell 
you that by far the larger part of his cases are 
patients who come to be treated for alleged pri- 
vate diseases—that is, diseases they endeavor to 
keep secret. Possibly one man in a thousand 
who resorts with prostitutes escapes infection. 
The percentage is scarcely above that, and when 
one considers that these prostitutes are supported 
to a great extent by the patronage of married 
men, the terrible consequences of the practise 
can be understood. The diseases of the brothel, 
the loathsome filth of the gutter, are carried into 
the home, and spread there, where innocence and 
trust are outraged and sacrificed to the monster 
Lust. 


THE RISK OF INFECTION 
No man who has any understanding of the life 


of the prostitute would ever allow himself to be- 


Lust 77 


come so mastered by lust as to habitually con- 
sort with them. Statistics prove that on an aver- 
age the New York prostitute in order to support 
herself by her illegitimate calling, must give her- 
self to the embraces of from three to five men 
daily. When one understands the physiological 
conditions of the sex, and how utterly incom- 
patible such habits are with the laws of health, 
he can understand at least one of the prolific 
sources of disease. 

A man who would voluntarily undertake to 
breathe the noxious atmosphere of a sewer is on 
the same plane of intellectuality as the man who, 
with any knowledge of prostitution, ever con- 
sorts with a member of the guild. 

We offer no remedy for prostitution. It is 
the outgrowth of lust on one side and necessity 
on the other. We are not talking to or lecturing 
prostitutes, but we do desire to tell our male 
readers a few truths which they will do well to 
heed. 


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WHAT MAKES THE PROSTITUTE 
Lust is responsible for the existence of the 
prostitute, as well as for the existence of nine- 
tenths of the physical and mental ills that rob 
life of its pleasure and joy. Lust is not the at- 


tribute or characteristic of health. It is a dis- 
order, just as the delirium of fever is a disorder. 


Virility can not be made the slave of lust, for 
lust destroys virility. Impotence is as certain a 
result of lust as indigestion is of over-eating. 
Therefore none of the channels for the gratifi- 
cation of lust, none of the expedients, which entail 
the gratification of lust, can ever strengthen or 
restore the powers impaired by lust. 

When any man attempts to argue that prostitu- 
tion is a necessary evil, just confront him with 
that proposition. He certainly cannot understand 
the processes by which the living body manufac- 
tures energy, nor the laws of its expenditure and 
expression, of its production and conservation. 

It is significant in this connection that while 


prostitutes become such from a variety of mo- 


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tives—to escape poverty, to secure fine clothes, 
to earn a living—very few become such because 
of lust in themselves. They offer themselves to 
the lust of men, and they continue in the calling 
only as long as the lust of men makes it profitable. 
This fact is worth considering along with the 
moral aspects of this question. And, I want to 
say here that it is impossible to treat this sub- 
ject without taking up the moral side of it. 
Books have been written in which this part has 
been eliminated, whose authors have proceeded 
upon the hypothesis that the sexual nature of men 
and women was purely muscular. That the in- 
dividual that developed an ox-like physique 
would be powerful sexually, and the unexpressed 
inference was that he would be more potential 


for the gratification of his lusts. 


ERRONEOUS IDEAS OF VIRILITY 
There was never a more misleading conception. 


Well-trained athletes are often wofully and con- 


fessedly deficient in virility, while their muscu- 


80 SEXUAL VITALITY 


lar system is well-nigh perfection. In fact, a 
close observer of strong men and athletes, who 
is also a physician, is my authority for the state- | 


ment that athletes as a rule are below instead of 
being above the average in virility. This con- 


dition argues eloquently against the hypothesis 
above cited, and indicates that virility—by which 
term we mean a normal appetite with regard to 
sex, and powers to gratify that appetite—is a con- 
dition not due and not wholly dependent upon the 


muscular condition of the individual. It be- 
comes impaired as the disease of lust advances, 


and it can be repaired only by overcoming and 
remedying this abnormal mental attitude, this 


mental disease. 
Here is a hint for those who desire to regain 


their manhood, and would proceed intelligently 
towards sure results. Let them know that 
all effort in the direction of repair is useless 
as long as the cause is permitted to flourish—that 
is, unbridled lust. The very first step must be 


towards the removal and remedying of that. The 


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first thing to be attempted is to secure a normal 
condition of the mind, a proper mental atti- 
tude towards life, towards the sphere of the indi- 
vidual, towards the other sex. When this has 
been commenced the cure is then but a matter 
of time. And it must be remembered that it 
will not be permanent if the old habits of thought, 
the old vicious systems of luxury are resorted to 
at any time. They will produce again weak- 


ening and destroying effects. 


CHAPTER VI. 
THE RESULT OF LUST. 

The first manifestation of lust, and the mani- 
festations that result, perhaps, in more physical 
suffering than any other, are found among in- 
fants—the immature boys and girls of the coun- 
try. For years educators and moralists have rec- 
ognized that there were potential influences at 
work among the youth of the nation for demor- 
alizing and weakening the whole race. Careful 
watch in institutions of learning, where they are 
brought together, the tabulated results of inves- 
tigation of attacks of illness upon juvenile pa- 
tients and the confessions of the youthful suf- 
ferers have proven conclusively that secret vice, 
or masturbation, is doing more to destroy and 
debase than any other influence at present exert- 
ing itself upon the race. 


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SECRET VICE 

The gambling instinct, drink, the use of drugs, 
are all habits that usually follow in the train of 
this vice, contracted at tender age. The vice it- 
self is but one of the many outcroppings of the 
universal lust malady, and being one of the ear- 
liest, it entails many others in its train. The 
reader who has perused this book thus far, will 
understand why the practice of secret vice by 
the immature is by far worse than the usual 
excesses of the adult, so far as the influences 
upon the individual are concerned. The drain 
of physical and nervous force is so great that no 
one may estimate it. The victim is literally rob- 
bing himself of life, and all that makes life worth 
living, and goes on doing it for years until he 
suddenly wakes up to the fact that all his powers 
are impaired, that he is not developing into man- 
hood, and that he is trembling on the verge of 
total wreck. Then begins a wild, hopeless quest 


for relief. Wherever he turns for advice, he is 


84 SEXUAL VITALITY 


met with excuses, with like ignorance as his own. 
He is induced to try various quack preparation 
appliances and methods of effecting a cure, but 
with lust still firmly in control of his mind, with 
habits of thought established that are strong and 
masterful, he drops lower and lower. Drugs, 
electricity, mechanical devices, alike fail to re- 
lieve, because the great master cause, the impel- 
ling force, that led first to his downfall is there 
in all its power, and he has not made an effort 


to escape from it that was not abortive. 


ITS BANEFUL EFFECTS 
It would be useless to enter into any enumera- 


tion here of the ills that are consequent upon 
this vice, this terrible practise, that is mildly re- 
ferred to as youthful folly. Indeed, it is youth- 
ful folly! It is suicide, if not weeded out, erad- 
icated, uprooted. Careful observance of the mor- 
tality reports of our great cities show that the 
greatest number of victims claimed by consump- 


tion are attacked between the ages of fourteen 


THE RESULT OF LUST 85 


and eighteen, and between those ages the practise 
of the death-dealing secret vice is mostly con- 
tracted. Many a bright and healthy boy or girl 
has entered school with the promise of growing 
into a strong and beautiful adult, and in the few 
years that follow, gradually dwindled, and with- 
ered, and weakened, until the hacking cough, 
the diseased lungs, and then the undertaker, 
have completed the chapter of their history. In 
ninety-nine cases out of every hundred of this 
character there is but one underlying cause. The 
physician who has tried to save them knows it, 
but respect for the parents, a sort of exaggerated 
self-modesty has kept him from telling them the 
real cause, and they believe that the flower of their 
family was stricken by the monster death because 
he or she was a shining mark, and they go to their 
graves mourned as victims of fate, when they 
themselves called Death to their side and gave 


their tender bodies to his cold clasp. 


86 SEXUAL VITALITY 


SOME ALARMING FIGURES 
Statisticians have estimated that of the av- 


erage child population of any of our larger towns, 
less than twenty per cent. are free from this 
baneful and hurtful practise. They do not learn 
it in their homes. Their home teaching and in- 
fluence is such that if they were perfectly healthy 
mentally and physically, they would not be con- 
taminated by it, if learned at school, from lewd 
companions, or from playmates on the street, but 
the seeds of lust, due to some libertine ancestor, 
has made them easy preys to the most transient 


influences for evil, and they fall. 


THEORIES OF PREVENTION 
Some writers have argued that frank teaching 
on the subject, and that habits that would make 
the sexes perfectly familiar with each other would 
reduce this vice to a considerable extent. This 
is far from being true. Right instruction upon 
the matters of physiology will do much, but with- 


out having removed the lustful propensity in some 


THE RESULT OF LUST 87 


way, such instruction merely opens the door for 
their immediate practise. And as to the question 


of exposure, of familiarizing children with their 
sexual natures, the folly of such an undertaking 


is proved over and over again in those localities 
where slight precautions, if any, are taken to 


keep the sexes apart, or to maintain any sort of 


outward decorum in their manners. The man 
who argues such a cause is utterly ignorant, or 


completely vicious, one of the two. 

The methods adopted by the leading nations 
of earth to-day are the best. They are the meth- 
ods that have been tried and have given the best 
results. Keeping the subject away from the im- 
mature mind of the child as much as possible, 
feeding his mind on healthy matters of investi- 
gation, teaching it to express its energy in other 


directions, until that balance is established that 
will enable him to control to some degree the 


lustful propensity which he, in common with 


others of the race, has inherited, is the only safe 
way. 


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DO NOT FOLLOW THE ADVICE OF 

IDIOTS 

We have had some pathetic letters from mis- 
guided parents who, at the suggestion of fanatics 
or fakers, have blurted out indecencies to their 
children, under the impression that they were 
imparting much needed information, that were 
pitiful in their import. One father who had read 
the maunderings of a self-styled authority on 
this subject, and had undertaken to give sexual 
instruction orally to his three boys, of ten, twelve 
and fourteen, wrote that his kindly intended act 
had resulted in making all of his sons victims 
of the very habit he would have given his life 


to keep from them. 


THE PROPER PREVENTIVES 
Therefore, while we know that secret vice ex- 
ists to an alarming extent among the youth of 
both sexes, the proper way to attempt its exter- 
mination is not by going forth and blowing the 


breath of sexuality upon all the children of the 


Sus 
THE RESULT OF LUST 89 


nation; it will not be cured by imparting to the 
youthful mind the information that it does exist, 
describing its modus operandi, and winding up 
with a catalogue of its horrors. Such a course is 


the course of a madman or a fool. 


WHAT PARENTS SHOULD DO 

If parents would cooperate in the direction of 
guarding their children from this vice, they must 
make them companions, seek always to guide 
their minds towards ideal things, give them op- 
portunity to use the enormous amount of energy 
their young bodies and brains are producing in 
directions that are at once pleasant to the chil- 
dren and beneficial to them. Their lives should 
have as much pleasure as. possible, and they 
should be guided to the higher pleasures, and 
not told of the bestial and warned against them. 

This is the only way, the proper way of com- 
batting this early manifestation of lust. Good 


food, mental and physical activity, and habits of 


90 SEXUAL VITALITY 


cleanliness insisted upon, will prevent the ac- 
quirement of the vicious habits in a far greater 
percentage of cases, than any special instruction 


on the subject would do. 


CHAPTER VII: 
THE BEGINNING OF PHYSICAL RUIN. 

Parents are grossly ignorant of their off- 
springs’ precocity in matters of sex. They are 
blind to all the avenues open to the child for ac- 
quiring damning and misleading ideas on the 
subject, and they rest in false security that their 
own teachings, in general terms, with regard 
to purity of habits and thoughts will be all suf- 
ficient protection. The experience of the world 
proves the foolishness and stupidity of this as- 
sumption. 

There is an authenticated’record of one moth- 
er’s experience. She had had her eyes opened 
to the duty of parents in guarding their boys and 
girls against the acquirement of health-destroy- 
ing secret habits; and she approached her oldest 
son when he was sixteen with her message of 


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92 SEXUAL VITALITY 


knowledge. She was astounded to learn that 
he was already a victim. Then she tried with 
the next, twelve years old, and he too was pol- 
luted. In terror she proceeded to the youngest, 
an infant of ten, and found that he too had 
acquired the blighting habit, which it had been 


in her power to forestall and prevent. 


PRECOCITY 

The common notion that boys are ignorant, 
in their early years, of sexual matters and of 
the wrecking habits of sensualists is wrong. It 
is a safe assumption to declare that seven out 
of every ten boys throughout the country have 
at least heard of the pernicious practises of self- 
abuse, by the time they have reached twelve. 

The testimony of educators, physicians and 
sociologists is all one on the subject and of the 
blighting influences of this practise. Statisti- 
cians inform us that a large majority of the 
inmates of asylums are there through this one 


hygienic error alone. The Rev. Dr. Adam Clark 


THE BEGINNING OF PHYSICAL RUIN 93 


speaks in no measured terms of its evil. He 
says: “The sin of self-pollution is one of the most 
destructive evils ever practised by fallen man. 
In several respects it is several degrees worse 
than common whoredom, and brings in its train 
more awful consequences. It excites the powers 
of nature to undue action, and produces violent 
secretions, which necessarily and speedily exhaust 
the vital principle and energy; hence the muscles 
become flaccid and feeble, the tone and natural 
action of the nerves relaxed and impeded, and the 
understanding confused, the judgment perverted, 
and the will indeterminate and wholly without 
energy to resist; the eyes appear languishing and 
without expression, and the countenance vacant; 
nutrition fails, tremors, fears and terrors are 
generated, and thus the wretched victim drags 
out a miserable existence, till, superanuated even 
before he had time to arrive at man’s estate, with 
a mind often debilitated even to the state of idi- 


ocy, his worthless body tumbles into the grave, 


94 SEXUAL VITALITY 


and his guilty soul—-guilty of self-murder—is 
hurried into the presence of its judge.” 

This is remarkably strong language, but the 
individual of immature years who for the first 
time excites his sexual organs and causes the 
the semen to flow, has taken a long step towards 
ruin. The horrible aspects of the above picture 
may not appear in all their loathsome reality until 
a lapse of months or years, where the constitu- 
tion is naturally strong and vigorous, but at 
length they come like an avalanche, to overwhelm 


the victim. 


WHAT SEMINAL LOSSES MEAN 

Loss of semen is loss of blood. The blood is 
the very life of you, and if it is drained to a suf- 
ficient extent life becomes extinct. All noted 
physiologists are fixed in the following belief 
with regard to this most potential secretion of the 
living body: “The semen or male principle is 
composed of the elements which form brain, 


muscle and bone—in short every tissue of the 


THE BEGINNING OF PHYSICAL RUIN 95 


body is robbed to a certain extent by- every emis- 
sion of the fluid. By parting with it a portion of 
the life principle is lost; and a constant loss of 
life principle, whether for purposes of genera- 
tion, or otherwise, must invariably drain the sys- 
tem of a vast amount of life force, and render 
it an easy prey to disease; as well as curtailing 


its potential energy in all avenues of expression.” 


SELF-ABUSE 

Of all the causes that contribute to nervous 
weakness and loss of virility this is the most po- 
tent. Ina few cases the abuse is carried to such 
a point that the entire structure of the generative 
organs becomes abnormal; and there is such per- 
manent injury to the nervous system that com- 
plete restoration is impossible. The effects of it 
are observed in a great many cases of insanity, 
in palsy, locomotor ataxia, etc. The generality 
of victims to the habit, however, generally muster 
sufficient will power to refrain from the physical 


acts in connection with it, but few of them ever 


96 SEXUAL VITALITY 

deem it necessary to attempt any mental reforma- 
tion; and while they stop short of the physical 
deterioration that attacks the grosser victims, 
they do not perceive any increase in their powers, 
and they are constantly suffering from night 
losses and from the feeling of nervous debility 
that accompanies this disorder. 

The mistake made by the victims of this filthy 
and degenerate habit is that they do not work 
upon the proper scheme. The cleansing of the 
cup must be from within, not without. The 
mind must be swept clear of the thoughts that 
have preceded and accompanied the debauchery ; 
the expenditure of nervous force always accom- 
panying any sexual excitement must be over- 
come and placed under absolute control of the 
will, The victim must avoid the appearance of 
things that induce the thoughts; flee from them 
when they arise, seek recreations and diversions 
that stimulate physical forces or appeal to the 


higher intellectual powers. 


SHE BEGINNING OF PHYSICAI, RUIN 97 


HABITS TO CULTIVATE 
To do this the habits must be so controlled and 
ordered, that one lives with every hour appor- 


tioned, and not in a hazy, hap-hazard manner. 
If you, my reader, are a victim to lust in this form 
arrange to have every hour of the day actively 
occupied, either with work, or some form of di- 
version. Seek to make your sports as much of 
an out-of-door character as as possible. If your 
daily occupation is sedantary take long walks, 
morning and night, and never retire until you 
are tired and sleepy. Then, as soon as you wake 
get out of bed; don’t indulge the demoralizing 
habit of lazily lying in bed and permitting the 
the half-awakened senses to wander at will. Al- 
ways keep a firm control of your thoughts, as 
well as your acts. The control of one’s mental 
powers means far more than a great many people 
suppose; and in the treatment of such a dis- 


order, as the one we are discussing, it is nine- 
tenths of the treatment. 
We have discussed this phase of pathology 


98 SEXUAL VITALITY 


with many of the leading medical men of the 
day, and they invariably declare that producing 
the proper mental attitude, inducing the culti- 
vation of will power, and control of the mental 
attitudes has more to do with the cure than any- 
thing they know of. 

In conjunction with this must go habits of 
cleanliness; as the external points of contact of 
the nerves must be all provided for and the ob- 
servance of all the rules that will conduce to a 
normal condition must be observed, embracing 


proper exercise, diet and bathing. 


SUBTERFUGES 

It used to be the advice of a physician appealed 
to by one of the victims of secret vice, to advise 
his patient to get married, or get a mistress. This 
was merely a subterfuge. If the patient acted 
upon the advice, he found himself no better phy- 
sically and morally than he was, and the drains 
upon his strength continued just the same. In 


fact men already weakened by such drains and 


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HE BEGINNING OF PHYSICAL, RUIN 99 


losses, should be cautioned against marrying 
until they have reestablished their title to man- 
hood. They cannot benefit themselves,and if they 
could it would be an ultra selfish mode of pro- 
cedure, for that benefit would be obtained at the 
cost to the woman who married them, and the 
children that might be born of such wedlock. 
No man should undertake the responsibility of 
founding a family, with such a taint in his own 
physical and moral fibre, for it will inevitably 


appear in the children he fathers. 


MARRYING NOT A REMEDY 
Moreover, such a man upon marrying, merely 


changes the form of his sensuality, and the con- 
sequences that follow sensuality will follow him 
just the same. The forces that worked in him 
before for his own destruction will continue, and 
for that reason, medical men know, that the de- 
gree of mental and physical suffering due to 
impaired sexual powers, is greater among the 


married than the single. The matter must be 


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probed deeper for any method to effect permanent 
results. Such external influences, as diet, mar- 
riage, etc., will not remedy; nor will all the 
moral homilies ever spun, do one whit of good. 
Instructing boys and men in the evils that attend 
the vice, have been tried without avail; it con- 
tinues just the same. All of which proves, that 
one must go deeper, and regenerate the moral 
fibre of the being and reequip him with the 
strength of manhood, before permanent reform 
can be hoped for, or improved physical and 
mental condition induced 

The worst cases of locomotor ataxia I ever 
saw, and also one of the most pitiable victims 
of palsy, were men who were married. They 
had probably laid the foundation for such break- 
downs early in life and married life seemed to 
hastenits consummation. Acting on the advice of 
doctors both these men had married, and within 
a few months the wreck they feared broke upon 


them with full force. There was tragedy for 


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you; they had already all but ruined themselves, 
and at the advice of a physician they pulled down 


others into ruin with them. 


THE FIRST STEP TOWARDS RELIEF: 
Our advice would be to banish the idea of 


obtaining relief in this way. Set yourself firmly 
in the right road. Be confident that sooner or 
later it will lead you out of the shadows. Stick 
to the methods prescribed further along, and you 
will find strength and force growing in you, as 
hope grows. This, believe me, is the only way. 
Tt has been tried upon hundreds; even upon the 
men referred to above, and joyous letters from 
them attest its efficacy. 

They proclaim the glad tidings that there is 
hope, even for those who are apparently hopeless 
wrecks, and that not only the effects of misdi- 
rected and ill-spent energy may be overcome, but 
such control obtained of the mental and physical 
forces, that there will be no further abnormal 


drain put upon them. 


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And this condition is not held up to you, 
solely for-the reason that it will make the gratifi- 
cation of abnormal desires possible. Such a 
result is impossible. Those who go seeking some 
wonderful elixir, that will make them Satyrs are 
doomed to disappointment. They can be men, 
enjoying the full powers of a man, and like a 
man know how to conserve those powers for their 
own good and happiness. And it is worth while. 
Those who have never known what it was to 
be a man, complete master of himself, strong and 
forceful, with ability to do and to dare what a 
man might, will have opened a door of hope 
that will expose a brighter, broader, happier life 


than they ever dreamed of entering. 


PRECOCIOUS PRURIENCE 
Precocious prurience and the various abnor- 


mal manifestations that accompany it, and which 
leave such disastrous consequences in their train, 
in the form of weakened physical powers, dis- 


ordered nervous systems, and a host of diseases, 


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which follow in the wake of these conditions, 
have occupied the attention of the gravest author- 
ities. Many theories have been advanced re- 
garding it. It has been imputed to everything in 
the way of diet and heredity, and various meth- 
ods have been advocated for its remedy. With 
few exceptions have any good results followed 


the application of these theories. 


DIETING OF LITTLE VALUE 

Diet has comparatively little to do with the 
manifestations which are a menace to the health 
oi the individual, and which work so widespread 
harm in the community. The most continent 
nations of antiquity, the Scythians and ancient 
Germans, were as nearly exclusively carnivorous 
as our Indian hunting tribes, the apathy of whose 
sexual instincts has been alleged as the explana- 
tion of their gradual extinction. For the same 
reason the Gauchos of the tropical pampas are 


an unprolific race while the Mujiks and sluggish 


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Boyars are as salacious as the natives of Southern 


Italy, where the diet is largely frugivorous. 


TRUER CAUSE OF INCONTINENCE 
The true cause of incontinence, and the evils 


that attend its early manifestation, lies in indo- 
lence and inertness. Lazy cities and small, 
thickly populated islands, like Lesbos, Paphos, 
and Cythera, have been most conspicuous for the 
absence of those virtues which all civilized na- 
tions hold in esteem, and which unquestionably 
mean greater health, vigor and mental force of 
the individual. 

The experience of specialists who have made 
careful observation of numerous cases, shows 
that sexual aberration in the years of immatu- 
rity are almost exclusively the vice of male chil- 
dren, whose potential energies, with the same 
diet and general mode of life as their fellows, 
find no adequate vent in an amount of active 
exercise sufficient for the constitutional wants of 


the other sex. 


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The weakening secret vices which work such 
havoc among the youth of all cities and towns, 
where the child-life is more indolent and inactive, 
are practicaly unknown in the country districts, 
and especially in the frontier regions, where there 
is a rigorous out-door existence, and the demands 
of living are such that the child from early 
years finds adequate employment for its physical 


forces. 


TEACHINGS OF THE MISGUIDED 

There have been anumberof misguided persons 
who have taught that ignorance of the sexual 
functions was responsible for the prevalence of 
this vice. The contention is absurd. Where the 
most precocious knowledge is at hand, provided 
the environment is indolent and lazy, there is the 
ereatest amount of the vice. Just as moral lec- 
tures fail to reform the victim of these degrading 
and weakening vices, so knowledge will not place 
a bar for its acquisition. We have had letters 


from parents, who, following the advice given 


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by these would-be teachers, have instructed their 
children in the sex lore of adults, only to find, 
that the development of the accursed habit fol- 


lowed quickly. 


EFFECTS OF WARNINGS 

Acquaintance with the family lives of the Amer- 
ican people prompts me to state that I believe 
that the home teachings and influences are the 
best that could be devised. There is no occasion 
to undertake to school your child in the things 
he cannot understand, in the hope of preventing 
him from falling into error. The remedy lies in 
an entirely different direction. If they were born 
with the knowledge, and the sexes perpetually 
commingled in a state of nudity, and these con- 
ditions were not remedied, there would still be 
just as great an amount of viciousness as at 
present, and probably much more. Once in a 
while a victim cries, “Oh! if I had only known ;” 
“Tf I had only been told,only been warned in time, 


I would never have done this!” This is the cry 


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of a weakling. No warning would have saved 
such an one; his habits and environment and his 
own poorly nurtured intellect were responsible for 
his fall. If such an one has not the power by 
sheer force of will, and few of those who have 
become victims of self-abuse have sufficient will 
power to stop, how could he have had the will 
power to withstand temptation simply because he 
had been told it was harmful. The influences 
that first induced the youth to resort to such 
practices, and the practices that followed, exert 
a wonderfully weakening influence upon the 
moral forces, and it is well-nigh impossible for 
the victim once bound in the thralls to extricate 
himself by sheer force of will. The physical 
powers and mental powers have to be strength- 
ened and developed to the point where the 
moral phase can be made strong enough to with- 
stand all mere demands of habit, before freedom 


from the thralldom of vice can be gained. 


CHAPTER VIII. 

THE IMPAIRMENT OF THE GENERATIVE FUNCTION. 

All the diseases which are manifest in abnor- 
mal conditions of the generative organs, or in 
abnormal manifestations of their function, have 
their origin, primarily in weakened and deteri- 
orated muscular conditions. The manifestations, 
however, are largely through nervous expression. 
The cases in which the affliction is purely one of 
the tissues, are such active diseases as gonor- 
rhoea, syphilis, stricture, gleet, and varicocele. 
The treatment for these, it follows, must be 
strictly for the sake of restoring the normal con- 
ditions, and removing the causes of the disease. 

When it comes to the obscure nervous dis- 
orders, which unquestionably first have their 
origin in the debilitated condition of the sexual 
organs, there is a greater problem before the in- 


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IMPAIKMENT OF GENERATIVE FUNCTION 109 


dividual, and one that must be considered care- 
fully, and methods of treatment adopted which 
will gradually restore the nervous tone, and at 
the same time stimulate the normal action of 
all the functions of circulation, nervous system, 
etc. 


SYMPTOMS OF SEXUAL DERANGE- 
MENT 


There is no need here to enter into a long list 
of the diseases and symptoms that afflict such 
persons. A great many of the symptoms are 
merely sympathetic, just as a great many of the 
people who believe themselves to be sexually de- 
ranged have nothing the matter with them beyond 
a general lack of tonicity in their muscular sys- 
tems. For such persons the very best course is 
to merely rest for a period, refrain from all 
pursuits calling for the expenditure of energy, 
either muscular or physical; exercise barely 


enough to make the circulation normal, eat whole- 
some nutritious foods, and the matter will 
straighten itself out in short order. 


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DRUGS POWERLESS 
It is this class which furnishes the great num- 


ber of dupes that are swindled by quacks, and 
by persons who pretend to hold secrets for the 
restoration of lost powers. No such secret is 
known to materia medica. When any power is 
lost, it has to be regenerated in the body, devel- 
oped by just the same process it was developed 
by in the first instance. And as long as all the 
organs exist for the development and expression 
of this stored up energy, just so long will the man 
who handles himself intelligently and knows how 
to apply ordinary common sense to his every-day 
life, where to set the bounds to his desires, where 
to stop himself in all pursuits, whether eating, 
exercising, etc., need have no grave apprehen- 


sion. 


 NATURE’S INTENT 
The first thing necessary is knowledge of self 


of sufficient degree to measure your ability to 


expend both nervous and physical force. Not 


IMPAIRMENT OF GENERATIVE FUNCTION {hi 


every man can do the feats of another and 110 
manner of training, no course of development 
could ever fit them for it. Nature has made 
the machine, and the intelligence within it must 
direct it in keeping with its capacity for work, 
for thought, for whatever nature designed. 
This chapter is intended directly for that large 
class who have listened to the misleading, de- 
ranged degenerate who has entirely false ideas 
of manhood and its powers and means of ex- 
pression. The best thing they can do is to get all 
ideas of comparison as to their persons out of 
their heads. You are what Nature made you, 
and your powers lie in you just to the extent 
Nature designed. To that extent they may be 
employed, but not beyond it, without deranging 
the entire machinery, and producing those terrible 
effects from which scores of men and boys make 
a lifelong, and too often a hopeless, struggle be- 


cause not advised according to the truth. 


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TRAIN FOR SELF CONTROL 

If one of the poor unfortunates who has 
through ignorance harmed his physical and nerv- 
ous powers falls into the hands of the quack the 
chances are that he will never have them restored 
to their normal strength. The methods of treat- 
ment are against this. If, however they under- 
take to control themselves, are willing to subject 
their minds and their bodies to the discipline of 
a few months’ or a year’s training, there is no rea- 
son why complete restoration may not be 
achieved. We have given the preceding chapter 
on general physiology in order that the individual 
who reads this book may have a clear idea of 
what the processes of development are, how 
strength is developed in the first place in the 
growing body, and how it can be restored in the 
body that has been drained or depleted to the 
extent of causing a shortage in either physical 


power or nervous force. 


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NO HOPE FOR THE GROSS AND 
BESTIAL 


Unless there is such an understanding of the 
needs of the body and appreciation of hygienic 
laws, there is no need to try to effect the rebuild- 
ing we have set out to outline. The person who 
is sO gross as to merely desire the abnormal con- 
dition, and an abnormal ability to expend nervous 
force, regardless of everything else, who cares 
nothing and knows nothing about its effects upon 
his body and mind, why let them go. They are 
better as they are, or let the quacks have them 
and drain them of their substance, as well as of 
their health and happiness. 

We have compiled this work with the idea that 
such a thing as complete manifestation of the at- 
tributes of a man is worth striving for and if they 
have been lost through ignorance or overstrain 
the cost of regaining them will not be too great, 
and the lesson learned by the individual will be 
such that it will prevent him again falling into the 


same errors. Henceforward we shall have to 


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speak very plainly, and we do it with all rever- 
ence, simply because there have been conditions 
created, through ignorance, and the effects of bad 
associates, and the always present type of de- 
generate in the community, which every man and 
woman should be warned against, as well as in- 
structed in the measures to adopt for regaining 


pristine health and strength. 


CHAPTER IX. 
THE THINGS THAT WRECK. 

The nervous organization is the master system 
of the body. For it all the other organs exist 
and perform their functions. Man has a mus- 
cular system merely for the purpose of locomo- 
tion, to enable him to move from place to place, 
in search of the materials that may be turned 
into nervous energy; and his muscular powers 
assist him in transforming it into the particular 
sort of force that restores the nervous organiza- 
tion and provides the energy for its expression. 

There is the most intimate connection between 
the great nervous and muscular centers and 
the creative organs of both sexes. The nerves 
of this tract are among the most powerful and 
intricate in the human body, and through its 
venous and arterial systems it is connected di- 

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rectly with the heart, that the proper amount of 
nutrition in the form of blood may be supplied 


direct to them. 


THE BEGINNING OF THE EVIL 

Until the age of puberty there is no call for the 
expression of nervous energy along these lines, 
unless, it is of a perverted, distorted sort. Yet, 
owing to the lewdness of many persons, whose 
degeneracy is such there are placed before the 
tenderest minds before reason has been developed 
to the extent that self-restraint may be practised, 
images of sensations and acts, that invariably re- 
sult in damage of untold character being brought 
about. In those rare cases where there is a 
weakened condition of the virile forces, and the 
organs intended for their expression, by abuses 
practised before the age of puberty is reached, 
there is no possibility of ever bringing the individ- 
ual to that degree of happiness, good health and 
nervous force he would otherwise have attained. 


The misuse of the organs when they were in 


THE THINGS THAT WRECK 117 


their developing stage is responsible for this, 
and the best that can be done is to remedy the 
existence of unnatural drains and restore. the 
equilibrium. The tissues, nervous and muscular, 
will require long and very careful attention to 
even approximate the powers that should have 


been those of the individual afflicted. 


HYPOCHONDRIACS 
But these cases are the rarest in the history of 


sexual diseases. We all know that there are both 
boys and girls who very early learn and prac- 
tise secret vice, just as there are born degenerates, 
who, whatever the surroundings, the environ- 
ment, the moral teaching, the will cultivation 
you give, will remain degenerates, and manifest 
their degeneracy in spite of all. But the ma- 
jority of those who suffer, or who think they 
suffer, and consequently bring themselves into 
a nervous state that is worse for them than if 
they really suffered from some physical ill, are 


those who have not built up constitutional ab- 


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normalities in their organism, but whose habits, 
diet, etc., have been such as to. weaken their 
nervous powers, and to make their normal ex- 
pression well-nigh impossible. For this class, 
which is that from which most of the quacks who 
advertise nostrums and fake cures draw their 
victims, there is the brightest hope. They have 
the means of cure entirely within themselves, 
and all that can be done by medical men, or by 
any other specialist is to show them the way 
where ignorance of it exists, and for the patient 
to have judgment enough and will enough to 
put his feet upon it and continue there withcut 
slip or doubt. 

As we have pointed out above, there is a class 
that has really impaired the organs through 
which the expression of nervous force may be 
made and who must subject themselves to the 
most careful systems of body building and men- 
tal culture to obtain relief from the ills they have 


brought upon themselves. There is also a class 


THE PHINGS TUAT WRECK 119 


whose ills are largely imaginary, who have over- 
taxed their powers of producing energy, and 
when they find their bodies’ or their minds’ de- 
mands upon it not meeting with the wonted re- 
sponse, immediately imagine that they are sub- 
ject to grave disorders, which, by continually 
dwelling upon, they aggravate to such an extent 
that they become to all intents and purposes what 


they imagine themselves to be. 


PLAIN TRUTHS 
The evils of secret vice, however, are nothing 


as compared to persistent excessess, and then 
seeking artificial stimulation, when the jaded 
nerves and tissues fail to respond as they were 
wont to do. Where there is one man who has 
ruined his life through onanism, there are liter- 
ally thousands, who, letting the brute take the 
reins in the direction of their living, have be- 
come poor, weak, useless beings, a bundle of 


nerves, victims of all sorts of nervous disease, 


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which the specialists have named and from which 
they obtain no relief day or night. 
Popular belief on this subject, as upon most 
other things it deals with, is entirely at fault. 
There are hundreds of men who believe that mar- 
riage, or the association of a man, who has his 
sexual powers impaired, with a woman, will work 
restoration. Nothing could be further from the 
truth, unless the association is of the right sort. 
A great many physicians will recommend mar- 
riage, and the layman, taking their word for it, 
imagines that assuming the marital relation and 
merely changing the scope of their vicious habits 
will cure them. It will not. If they have mar- 
ried for love, and the woman’s finer instincts ex- 
ercise a restraining influence upon the monster 
lust, that has been permitted to grow up in the 
mind, then there is a chance; but if the individual, 
as most do, merely reasons that he will escape 
the punishment he has merited by a_ different 


form of indulgence, he is doomed to despair. 


THE THINGS THAT WRECK 121 


THEORIES OF SEXUAL LAW 
There are a great many theories about the re- 


productive organs, and their powers and effi- 
ciency. Some of the leading writers on the sub- 
ject have gone into curious details as to the mys- 
terious magnetic influences that emanate from 
the contact of the male and female organs of re- 
production, and have argued from this theory 
that there is a mysterious human magnetic cur- 
rent turned loose which offsets the effects of the 
act upon the male. This theory is supported by 
a good many phenomena, which can not be ex- 
plained satisfactorily in any other way. But the 
presence, or absence, of such a current will not, 
as has been claimed by some, offset the physical 
effects of sexual congress upon the parties. This 
theory can be easily disproved, and it has been 
sompletely refuted by experiments with domestic 
animals. The male animal is utterly without re- 
fraint, just as a great many human beings are. 


If he were supplied with the exciting causes and 


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the means for gratification he would run into just 
as great excesses as any man and with the same 
results. All breeders know this to be true, and 
they provide very carefully for the stallions, 
dogs and boars that their powers may not be 
over-taxed. Nature will stand just so much, 
with reserve force behind to effect recuperation, 
and when that limit is reached there is sure to 
be the piper to pay. And you can’t pay him in 
doctor’s fees and obtain relief by taking a few 
drugs; nor can you undertake any specified form 
of muscle or nerve building that will equip you 
with the constitution of a Satyr. You must know 
yourself, and, being reasonable, be guided by 


reason. 


RELATION BETWEEN BLOOD AND 
EXCESSES 


Students of physiology have shown what an 
intimate association there is with the procreative 
act and the most vital organs of our being. The 


very best blood of the heart is required to pro- 


THE THINGS THAT WRECK 123 


duce the seminal fluid. The most intense 
nervous force is necessary to effect the physical 
changes and reactions that must take place when 
this fluid is expended in the real, or abortive, act 
of reproduction. This being the case, it becomes 
merely a question of understanding the rules that 
govern the expression of nervous force, and the 
accumulation of the physical elements that enter 
into this matter, for us to so gauge our lives as 
to make them harmonious and healthy. 

So far as human research can show, and 
guided by the dim lights of very ancient history 
that have been handed down to us in myths and 
legends, the early types of man were long-lived— 
a great deal longer-lived than they are at the 
present time or have been for thousands of cen- 
turies. This is probably due to the fact that in 
those earlier days there were fewer females; 
monogamy was enforced, and the hardships of 
living were such that the pair were far nearer 


the animal instincts sexually than men and 


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women are at the present day. And there was 
an utter absence of all®the forms of excess which 
have cursed humanity since. The plurality of 
wives was the first weakening influence that was 
put upon the race, and it has worked evils which 
have not been overcome even to this day, and 
which will probably bind the race down to a cer- 


tain level through all the ages that are to follow. 


THE BENEFICIAL MARRIAGE 
In this connection we desire merely to offer one 


suggestion. The methods of living at present 
are such as to keep alive the degenerate instincts 
the race has developed, whereas, if there were 
proper safeguards they would not exist. Marriage 
ought to be made an absolutely imperative duty. 
Reason, intelligence and hygiene will assuredly 
preserve the balance of population to a limit that 
will always suit the productiveness of the earth. 
And the married state is the state that the race 
was designed for. Our forms of marriage have 


deteriorated to such an extent that they can 


THE THINGS THAT WRECK 125 


hardly be called marriage. They are responsible 
for much of the weakening excesses and much of 
the suffering that one encounters. Men and 
women in civilized countries, while apparently 
exercising their will and rights in choosing their 
_mates, are really influenced by almost every mo- 
tive except the right one. Desire for position, 
for power, for wealth are the motives in most 
cases, and from this there can not result any- 
thing but inharmony. 

The ideal marriage, from the hygienic point of 
view, and from the point of view of the moralist 
as well, is that which prevails among some of the 
very oldest peoples of the world. Where the child- 
ren are betrothed in childhood, are schooled for 
each other, have the idea of their association al- 
ways before them; become so palpably one in 
training, in thought and in motives, that they real- 
ly have the ideal marriage. No marriage founded 
on a month’s or a year’s courtship will ever afford 


the results to the individual, or to the race, that 


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these marriages are designed and prepared for. 
Then marriage is divested of all its mysteries to 
the mind of the child. It is prepared for it. 
There is none of that freebooting, that exploring 
for the forbidden fruit, that always arises in the 
mind of the-boys and girls who are raised up and 
then turned. loose to forage for themselves, as 


they are in our boasted civilization. 


CHAPTER X, 
FOOL THEORIES, 
There is not a thing that touches the life of, 


man about which the ignorant and the ill-ad- 
vised have not spun theories. The hobby-horse 
riders have theories about diet that are radical, 
about exercise, about rest, about everything, and 
there are a plentiful supply of theories regarding 
sexual science. I refer to most of these as fool 
theories. That is the proper characterization of 
them. Take, for instance, the theory of the man 
who argues that purity, continence and sexual 
normality would be promulgated by a return to 
habits of nudity. Only a crazy man could earn- 
estly put forward such a theory as that; for the 
history of humanity is that in those communities 
where nudity has been permitted and encouraged 
there has been the greatest amount of sexual de- 
moralization and physical decay. 
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NUDITY CRANKS 
There are some curious facts to be cited in this 


connection that are worthy of the reader’s atten- 
tion. In those countries where sensuality has 
been permitted to thrive without protest, where 
nudity has been encouraged and permitted, the 
grossest forms of sensuality, and consequently 
the most pronounced physical consequences have 
resulted. Wherever one goes to-day he hears, in 
a veiled way, of the sensual practises on the seas, 
which have gradually been scattered over the 
world, carrying in their train results that are 
terrible in their consequences. If a criminolo- 
gist or physician seeks for the most pronounced 
types of physical and mental degeneration he 
looks among this class. It furnishes a rich supply 
of the weak, the suffering, the pitiful. 

The irresistible lesson from these facts is that 
for the modern man a normal exercise of the 
sexual function must be adhered to if virility and 


physical strength would be maintained, and that 


FOOL, THEORIES 129 


sensuality in any form is as sure to sap and un- 


dermine it as the sun is to rise to-morrow. 


LIMITATION OF MARITAL INTER- 
COURSE 


Among the fool theories respecting the exercise 
of the sexual function may be mentioned that of 
some ascetics who assert that for a man and wife 
to indulge in the sexual act oftener than once a 
month or once a fortnight at the most is detri- 
mental, is the veriest rubbish. There are times 
when the physical powers are lowered and weak- 
ened, when the participation in the sexual act 
would endanger the very existence of the in- 
dividual, and a man ought to have common 
sense enough to avoid it, and to avoid sexual ex- 
citement of all kinds on such occasions. When 
he is in physical health, however, and there is the 
desire, not stimulated by drugs or stimulants, 
there can not be any harm in a more frequent 
indulgence. 


PHYSICAL BALANCE THE GUIDE 
The aim of this book is to give facts—facts, 


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observation and science have proved, and not 
merely untried theories, or the theories of per- 
sons who speak without authority. The very 
first thing to do is to seek to secure and maintain 
physical balance, and when that is done be guided 
in the matter of your sexual appetite much as you 
would be guided in the matter of taking food. Do 
not seek a continual round of sexual excitement, 
for it will surely undermine and destroy your 
nervous strength. Be able to completely control 
your passion, and not be controlled by it, and you 
will obtain a much richer reward of happiness 
and contentment than any libertine, or sensualist, 
or any ascetic recluse, who tortures the body by 
denying the naturalness, or the hygienic import 
of the act. 


QUACKS AND NOSTRUMS 
In every large community, where there is a 
percentage of persons who as youths or as adults 
are engaged in pursuits that do not call for any 


great amount of physical exercise, we find weak 


FOOL THEORIES 181 


men—men who have aborted instincts, who are 
slaves of sensuality in one form or another. 
These individuals are not hopelessly lost. Sooner 
or later each of them, whatever the character of 
excesses that have been the cause of their un- 
doing, become aware of the fact that they are not 
complete men; that they do not have within 
their bodies all the powers and forces for suc- 
cess, for health and happiness that their more 
fortunate fellows have, and they unhesitatingly, 
as soon as they are aware of this lack, would 
part with all the wealth of the world to regain it. 

Pick up any newspaper or magazine, and one 
of the conspicuous features on their advertising 
pages is the “quack” advertisement of a nostrum 
that claims to restore lost vitality, retone depleted 
nervous forces, give strength and vigor to the 
weak, nervous man. All these advertisements 
tell one story: That of thousands of wrecks seek- : 
ing a way to be relieved from the bondage of sin 


and weakness they Have made for themselves. 


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It may be said in passing that any reliance 
placed upon these alleged remedies is hope 
wasted. They can not in any measure restore 
that power which is dependent upon the healthy 
functional activity of a properly nurtured, prop- 
erly developed, properly used body. They are 
relics of superstitions, the transparent ruses of 
the unscrupulous to eke profit out of the mis- 


fortunes of others. 


APHRODISIACS DANGEROUS 
It is a well-known fact that any poisonous 


drug that has aphrodisical properties sufficiently 
strong to stimulate the nervous system and cen- 
tres that control the sexual function have an in- 
eradicably ill effect upon the general health. They 
merely spur jaded powers and functions to spas- 
modic over-exertion again, and leave them still 
further weakened and injured. Moreover, all 
such preparations that have effects upon the 
nervous system such as described are powerful 


irritant poisons, which impart injurfes to still 


FOOL THEORIES 188 


other parts of the body, and the reaction follow- 
ing the false stimulation usually makes manifest 
still other disorders than those sought to be reme- 
died. 

There are few such drugs, but we caution all 
readers against them. Avoid them as you would 
deadly poisons. That is what they are, and 
while the quack may administer doses of such 
smallness that immediate death may not follow, 
yet the seeds are being planted more and more 
‘thickly in your system, and they will bear fruit 


tsooner or later. 


FAKERS AND THEIR DUPES 

Against these ultra powerful drugs there is not 
so much need to be cautioned, as against the 
fakes, pure and simple, that are built up around 
this class of disorders. The true aphodisiacs are 
so potential for harm that even physicians who 
have the patient completely under their observa- 
tion are loath to employ them, knowing, as they 


do, the far-reaching evil influences that attach to 


134 SEXUAL VITALITY 


their use. But superstition and ignorance have 
supplied the pharmacopz with scores of filthy, 
dangerous compounds which possess no power of 
stimulating or exciting the nervous system, and 
yet they are advertised as certain cures for weak- 
ness, losses, lack of virility! These advertise- 


ments are merely traps for the unwary. 


STRANGE DELUSIONS OF THE 
ANCIENTS 


In the early days of medicine, dried and pow- 
dered frogs were administered for this purpose, 
and the victims of excesses and the prematurely 
old swallowed the nlthy concoction in the hope 
that it would restore youth. It is patent to any 
one that powdered toad would have no more 
effect than dried fish or dried mice or any other 
form of dead and pulverized animal matter. 

In China and some other countries certain 
kinds of lizzards are esteemed valuable as 
remedial agents in such cases. There is a pecu- 


liarly hideous lizzard that inhabits the northern 


FOOL THEORIES 185 


part of Africa, and the old Romans and Greeks, 
used to have them hunted and their livers care- 
_ fully extracted and dried, and from this a powder 
of reputed potency was evolved. Science made 


such things appear absurd. 


FOLLIES OF TO-DAY 

But in our day we have just as filthy, just as 
senseless remedies being offered broadcast over 
the country, as baits to catch the weak and the 
hopeless. Recently the advertising pages of a 
well-known newspaper contained ten advertise- 
ments of fake remedies for men. That they were 
fakes any person with the slightest intelligence 
could see at a glance, One, which boasted a large 
space, advertised that a certain extract had been 
obtained from healthy young bullocks, which 
would do the work! Another fakir advertised an 
extract from goats, and still another one from 
sheep ; others offered vegetable and mineral com- 
pounds that would effect a cure of all cases of 


sexual derangement! 


186 SEXUAL VITALITY 


If there is any part of medicine in which there 
is need for reform, and on which there is light 
needed, it is this. Go to any reputable and intel- 
ligent physician and he will tell you that there 
is no way to restore those powers except by rest, 
proper body building habits, and living hygenic- 
ally. And that is the sum total of it. Do not 
waste your money and still further weaken your 
vitality by following after the fellows who ad- 
vertise cures of these disorders. They can do 
you no good. 


“ities 


CHAPTER XI. 
THE REMEDY. 


Active exercise is the only remedy for sexual 
vice and for most of the ills it produces. Drugs, 
etc., will have no beneficial effects upon them in a 
remedial way. They arise, as we have stated, in 
indolence, and improper means of expressing the 
physical powers, energy that is being manufac- 
tured under certain conditions. Provide for the 
expression of that energy, and you get at the very 
seat of the trouble. The habit will quickly be- 
come distasteful. 

Parents who are anxious to prevent their chil- 
dren from falling victims to this habit, should 
constantly have this in mind. Do not be so much 
exercised about what they shall or shall not learn, 
as to how much opportunity they shall have for 
the exnenditure of their rapidly accumulating 


137 


138 SPECIAL EXERCISES. 


EXERCISE A—Lie on the back as shown. Kick 


upward vigorously as indicated by the dotted 
line. Repeat until tired. 


THE REMEDY 189 


physical energy. Don’t permit an indolent and 
ambitionless boy to be among your brood. See 
to it that they get out of doors and employ their 
muscles. Encourage them in games, seek to stim- 
ulate a desire to excell in all those sports which 
boyhood indulges in. Running, jumping, wrest- 
ling, boxing, any form of the sport in which he 
manifests an interest, encourage. Help him to 
develop the skill and the strength to serve well 
in it, and be sure you are placing the best safe- 
guard between the child and any unnatural and 
weakening vicious habit that he might otherwise 
acquire. 
HABITS TO CULTIVATE 

In the beginning, always from babyhood, see 
that the child bathes regularly and well; en- 
courage him in the use of cold water, and do not 
encourage the practise of sleeping in a_ close 
room, with heavy covering. Make it your object 
to stimulate the manly side of him at all times, 


never encourage effeminacy. And when he is 


140 SPECIAL EXEREISES. 


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EXERCISE B—Lie on the back as shown. Per- 
form a running motion with legs as indicated by 
the dotted lines. Execute the motion quite rapid- 


ly. Continue until slightly tired. 


SPECIAL EXERCISES. 141 


EXERcISE C—Lie on the back as shown. Al- 
ternately bring the knees toward the head as in- 
dicated, Perform movement with vigor. Make 
twenty to forty movements with each leg. 


142 SEXUAL VITALITY 


large enough to get out of doors send him there; 
let him play out of doors to his heart’s content; 
and encourage him to participate in the hardiest 
games his age and strength will permit. By so 
doing you will be giving him something better 
and helping him to an estate more desirable than 
by leaving him a hoard of gold, or making him 


the sticcessor to a business. 


APPEARANCE TO EMULATE 
To the youth into whose hands this volume may 


fall and who will be under the necessity of work- 
ing out his own salvation from a labyrinth of 
evil into which he, perchance, may have strayed, 
we give this advice: Begin to cultivate your 
manly qualities at once, however weak and im- 
poverished they may be. Join your fellows in out 
of door sports; take up systematic exercises, and 
seek to develop your body; that is the first step 
toward emancipation, and health, and vigor. You 
may assist in hastening the control by adopting 


a frugal diet, as we have hinted in another cliap- 


SPECIAL EXERCISES. 148 


FExercisE D—Lie on the back as shown. Keep 
the legs straight and bring them over the head al- 


ternately as indicated by the dotted lines. Make 
long, full sweeps with the legs. Twenty to forty 
movements according to strength, 


144 SPECIAL RXERCIONG, 


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ExercisE E—Lie on the back as shown. Ex- 
tend the legs as indicated and spread them as 
wide apart as possible, then bring them together, 
observe the angle at which the legs are extended. 
Do not bring them to a vertical position. Con- 
tinue until tired. 


THE REMEDY 446 


ter, but in the great work of regeneration you will 
have to make a muscular work first. The moral 
fone and strength will gradually be acquired. 
We have given, under a separate chapter, a com- 
plete system of exercises for building up and 
stimulating the depleted musclar and nervous cen- 
tres, and practise these faithfully. 

The health of the sexual organs, and conse- 
quently the health of the entire system, is de- 
pendent very largely upon the amount of nutri- 
tion, and the hygienic care the part of the body 
in which the sexual organs lie receives. We know 
that exercise is one of the most potential aids 
in stimulating circulation and supplying nutri- 
tion to any part of the body. Therefore, it is clear 
that exercise must play an important part in the 
process of strengthening and building up the sex- 
ual system. 

General exercise is good for this, such as a long 
daily walk, participation in out-door sports that 


are not of too strenuous a character, general 


146 SPECIAL EXERCISES. 


EXERCISE F—Clasp the hands around the 
knees as shown. Pull with great pressure on the 
knees. Duration of pull should be about two 
seconds; rest about five seconds and repeat. 

Repeat exercise ten to fifteen times, 


THE REMEDY 147 


physical culture, either at home or in a gym- 
nasium. All of these are to be very earnestly 
commended for the better your physical tone, the 
better will be your nervous organization, as a 


rule. 


; SPECIAL TREATMEN T NEEDED 

But there are some cases where abnormal con- 
ditions have been brought about by habits that 
are unhygienic, and in order to quickly overcome 
these, the stimulation must be applied more di- 
rectly and constantly to the parts affected than 
would be obtained by general exercise. To meet 
the demand for this sort of cases, and to provide 
readers with a method of quickly overcoming cer- 
tain organic ailments that may affect the sexual 
tracts, we have designed the exercises shown in 
this chapter, which while affording mild stimula- 
tion to the body in general, and promoting a more 
equal blood circulation, will react wonderfully and 
quickly upon the muscular and nervous systems 


of the sexual tract. 


148 SPECIAL EXERCISES. 


EXERCISE G—Lie on the back as shown. Clasp 
the hands firmly on the knees. Spread the 
knees apart as far as possible, then bring them 
together, resisting the movement as much as pos- 
sible with the hand. Relax and repeat until tired. 


THR REMEDY 149 


HOW TO EMPLOY THESE EXERCISES 
These exercises should be taken just before re- 


tiring at night and immediately upon waking in 
the morning. Take them with as little clothing 
on as possible and follow them by giving a brisk 
friction treatment to the lower part of the body, 
the thighs and surrounding parts. A bristle 
brush is the best implement to use for this pur- 
pose. Then bathe the parts in cold water for a 
few moments; or, better still, if you have the 
conveniences, allow a small stream of cold water 


to flow over the external sexual organs for a few 
seconds. 

In the beginning make the exercises conform to 
your strength. Do not persist in them if they 


produce soreness, and do not carry them to the 
point of producing exhaustion. In addition to 


these exercises stay in the open air as much as 
possible each day, and at all times practise deep 
breathing. 


CHAPTER XII. 


THE IMPORTANCE OF MENTAL POISE. 

In comparatively recent times men and women 
have become aware of the importance of the men- 
tal attitude in controlling conditions of the body. 
Hunger, thirst, and even disease, are remarkably 
influenced by the mental attitude of the indi- 
vidual. If the mind can be kept free from worry 
and the taint that afflicts the body, the most seri- 
ous disease can be quickly cured. This studying 
and inducing of mental attitudes is one of the 
most important elements of the healer’s art. Every 
physician makes it one of his most important aids. 
When he knows the thought habits and the tem- 
perament of his patient, his treatment becomes 
largely directed toward producing cheerful, con- 
fident, and hopeful thoughts in his patient, and 
there is immediate beneficial results. 


150 


“HE IMPORTANCE OF MENTAL POISE 151i 


HOW MENTAL HEALING WORKS 

We have been informed by numbers of the 
leading physicians of the country that a majority 
of the sexual disorders that come to them, in their 
professional work, are due entirely to wrong 
mental ideas, wrong mental attitudes and Ses 
roneous thoughts. If they could enlighten the 
thought of the patient, and free him from brood- 
ing and morbid introspection, a cure would be 
certain in ninety-five per cent. of the cases of im- 
potence, sexual derangement, and nervous disor- 


ders arising from such derangement. 


FIRST STEPS IN MENTAL TREATMENT 

Therefore, the most important thing for the in- 
dividual to do is to inform his mind accurately 
of the physiological and hygienic facts relating to 
sex. Knowledge on these points will relieve him 
from baneful influences of wrong ideas. The 
than, who has been made to think that his sexual 
powers are something entirely apart from his 


physical body, and who, when heobserves the first 


152 SEXUAL VITALITY 


signs of exhaustion, begins to worry, learns there 
is no cause for worry. That given rest, nutritious 
diet, and recuperation will follow. And the mind 
once put in this attitude, the nervous system is 
telieved from the strain and recovery is assured. 

Then, when we go one step further and take up 
the class of patients, who are really suffering 
from prolonged abuse of these powers, and we 
can convince them that they are suffering from a 
physical ill which under proper laws of living or 
Proper habits will be straightened out, and we 
can induce them to assume a cheerful aspect, to 
seek the diversions of the healthy minded, and to 
cultivate an atmosphere of hope and joyousness, 
their case becomes simple, and a few weeks or 
months will work wonders. 

Once a man or woman becomes convinced that 
something is the matter with his or her sexta] ap- 
paratus, they are in a fair way to becoming ut- 
terly impotent. All through the influence of the 


thought, solely. The writer has known scores 


THE IMPORTANCE OF MENTAL POISE 163 


of men who were to all intents and purposes sex- 
ual wrecks, who, because they had sinned and had 
brooded upon some of the primary results of that 


sin, became what they imagined themselves to be. 


CULTIVATING THE MENTAL ATTITUDE 

The cultivation of this mental attitude is not 
so difficult. One does not need an instructor to 
guide one in it. The application of mental thera- 
peutics is so simple that any one who can read and 
who can think at all, may be guided by it. One 
merely has to keep watch of the mind. Prevent 
it from idle incursions in the land of day dreams. 
Avoid any introspection and seek healthy forms 
of mental occupation during the waking hours. 
This is all for the effect upon the conscious mind, 
the voluntary thinking. 

The sub-conscious part, the involuntary part 
must be trained too, and this is a trifle more dif- 
ficult, and will require more patience, but it can 
be done, just as surely as a child can learn the 


alphabet. It requires reiteration, persistence, and 


154 ; SEXUAL VITALITY 


little aids to keep the idea constantly in mind for 
a sufficient period for the habit of thought to be 
established. 

This part of the treatment should be sought to 
be established scientifically. The faith cure, 
where one is asked to believe, and the intellect is 
forced into a belief that may be at utter variance 
to the facts, is useless. Such an attitude might 
be arrived at by certain temperaments and held 
for a period, but invariably there comes a time 
when it fails, because it is not an established habit 
of thought. The intellect has not been permitted 
to arrive at it, logically, so as to never release it. 

To prove to yourself the potentiality of the 
mind, I would advise the patient to try a few ex- 


periments. 


EXPERIMENTS 
Fix the mind on any part of the body and think 


constantly that the channels of circulation are 
open, that the blood is flowing there at your will, 
in greater and greater quantities, and watch 


( 


THE IMPORTANCE OF MENTAL POISE 155 


the result. A few moments of such concentra- 
tion will inevitably result in an increased blood 
supply to that portion, and a rise in tempera- 
ture. I suggest this as a preliminary step in 
order to convince the reasoning part of the 
mind of the logical nature of the treatment. This 
once established, the patient may proceed to the 
cultivation of the thought habits, and the auto 
suggestions that will aid him to accomplish his 


desires in the-way of improvement. 


MENTAL DRILLS NECESSARY 

To do this a regular system of exercises should 
be established. We will take it for granted that 
you have, by means of the experiment suggested 
above, or some other, in proving to your own in- 
telligence, the independent and powerful influence 
of the will or mind or thought over the functions 
of the body. The next step is to rid yourself of 
the thought habits you have had with regard to 


yourself, and the condition of your body. 


156 SEXUAL VITALITY 


FIRST STEPS 

The first step in this is to read carefully and 
to understand what has been said, preceding, with 
regard to sexual physiology. When you have 
done this, you will understand, and your intellect 
will approve the understanding that any manifes- 
tations that you may have out of the ordinary, are 
merely temporary, and due entirely to your non- 
compliance with the laws of health and being. 
The conclusion to draw from this is that com- 
pliance with those laws, together with rest, will 
result in rehabiliment. This will give you the 
more necessary interest and stimulation to under- 
take to follow carefully the instructions, as to diet 


and hygiene, and the government of the body. 


HOW TO MAKE AUTO-SUGGESTIONS 
We will now proceed to the more subtle sugges- 


tions; suggestions which will bear directly upon 
the healing, or re-establishing of normal func- 
tions. 


Every night before yeu fall asleep bring all 


THE IMPORTANCE OF MENTAL, POISE 157 


your mental powers into control. Review the 
thought conclusions you have been led to arrive 
at from the foregoing. 

Say to yourself over and over again, “I am 
observing the laws of health with regard to my 
sexual being. Rest means recuperation. I can 
experience the effects of my reformed habits, 
which are already beginning to show changes in 
my body. I no longer commit abuses on my 
body. My mind is right, and will stay right. 
I feel better, therefore I know that I am better. I 
know that I will be still better in the morning. I 
have no cause to worry any more. I do not 


worry.” 


CONCENTRATION 

Keep these thoughts in your mind for a suf-. 
ficiently long time to make their repetition easy 
without mental concentration. And when you 
arise in the morning say over to yourself, men- 
tally, the same sort of suggestions. Think during 


the day of strength, of strong objects, of moun- 


158 SEXUAL VITALITY 


tains, of masculine things. Seek to surround 
yourself with objects that suggest strength and 
rigidity. Avoid all feminine fripperies. Dress 
in a manly fashion. When you start out in the 
morning, throw your shoulders back and walk 
as if you were the lord of creation. Inhale deep 
breaths, slowly and rhythmically, and with every 
inhalation say to yourself, Iam aman. I know 
it. I feel it. ‘ 

And do not allow any doubts, and brooding, to 
obtrude themselves upon this mental attitude. 
Keep the idea of improvement present with you at 
every moment when your mind is not otherwise 
occupied with business or diversion. If you read, 
read books of strong deeds; history and historical 
romances, Avoid psychological and sensual 
works, and every suggestion of weakness or 
femininity. 

Now, at the close of this chapter, let me again 
say to you that it is the most important in the 


book. The physical aids, suggested before, are 


THE IMPORTANCE OF MENTAL POISE 159 


utterly powerless to help you unless you seri- 
ously want to be helped to a condition of true 
manliness, and are so enthused over it that you 
will lend your aid in establishing that desire su- 
preme in your life for the time being. 

The understanding and application of the prin- 
ciples set forth in this chapter will work a miracle 
in a short time if you follow them seriously and 
absolutely, 


CHAPTER XIII. 
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES, 

There are a number of queries forever being 
put by men and women, who, by their inquiries, 
show that they would do the right thing, act in 
accord with Nature’s laws, and the laws of Hy- 
giene, if they knew them. For the benefit of 
such, this chapter is intended, and in it we shall 
attempt to place the answer to a great many ques- 
tions that arise in connection with sexual phys- 
iology, and which have not come up in the other 
chapters, where the specific function of the or- 
gans have been treated, and the abnormalities 
that may arise, are set forth. 


HERMAPHRODITISM 
First, we shall treat here, briefly, the subject of 


bi-sexuality, or hermaphroditism. There is a 
vastly extended popular belief in this double-sex 
160 


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MISCELLANEOUS NOTES 161 


idea. There is not the slightest doubt, in the 
minds of scientific men now, that all such cases 
as have been reported were myths. That such 
a thing as true hermaphroditism, or double-sex 
does not exist and has never existed. Ina former 
chapter, in describing the organs of the female 
sex, we made reference to one organ, situated 
near the external orifice, called the clitoris. This 
in a normal state is a small, glandular body, with 
erectile tissue, similar to that found in the male 
penis. Under certain abnormal conditions, and 
sometimes from birth, there have existed females 
with this organ unduly enlarged. There have 
been cases known where the clitoris, from being 
a small and obscure organ, became of such promi- 
nence as to extend from an inch to two and a 
half inches beyond the external opening. It na- 
turally presents the phenomena of becoming erect 
under sexual excitement, very much the same as 
the male penis does. But the similarity ends 


there. The clitoris is not penetrated by a canal. 


162 ~~ SEXUAL, VITALITY 


It is not-connected by any personal channels with 
the. rest.of ‘the sexual system,, and. there is. not 
a possible chance for any of the phenomena that 
occur with regard to.the penis and. its append- 
ages during sexual congress happening. with. this 
organ, .It has. been pretty well, proved that.in . 
most, cases.in which such apparent, abnormality 
has been. observed;.that the woman has -been. of 
coarse moral fibre, and more.masculine in appear- 
ance and shape, than the: ordinary female. types. 
They may also develop . degenerate’ sexual. -in- 
stincts, but. whatever these may be. there are no 


cases authenticated. of.a bi-sexual function. 


DEGENERATES 
This brings us to the discussion of those pe- 
culiar forms of mental disorder, which produce 
sextial deverierates. All medical men, know and 
recognize that there are such—persons ‘in whom 
the sexual instinct isso distorted that they ‘no 
longer desire:or seek gratification’in the ordinary 


manner. , There: are half a dozen types of these, 


MISCELLANEOUS Norris ) 1€3 
so disgusting and: loathsome in their practises, 
that even a cataloguing of them in such a work 
as this:is not permissible. «Suffice it to say, that 
such disorders are of a psychological instead ‘of 
physical nature. They are: victims of mental 
disorder. Perhaps early excesses, secret’ vice 
and: diverse forms of » sensuality, ‘may ‘have 
had. much to do with producing these debased 
types of humanity, but their treatment and cure 
lie in another: domain than ours. 

The: true cases of sexual degeneracy are prac- 
tically incurable forms of insanity.. One peculiar 
feature in connection with them, which has been 
elucidated after very. careful inquiry among. hos- 
pital surgeons, who have had experience pe 
such beings, and policemen, who, in. their busi- 
ness, must in the course of time, arrest a great 
many. of these degenerates, brings to. light the 
fact, that, sexual perverts that have.come within 
their observance, and.. were, strangely enough, 


sometimes, very powerful physically. This «con- 


164 SEXUAL VITALITY 


controverts the theory of some persons that 
sexual depravity of this sort means physical 
weakness. A man, or what passes for a man, 
may be physically strong and symmetrical, and 
still practise the lowest, most loathsome and de- 
praving vices. It also proves the further truth, 
that the mere physical development, in such cases, 
has nothing whatever to do with working a 
cure. Their instincts have become completely 
metamorphosed, and they are astruly insane as 
any inmate of an asylum in the world, and the 
mere production of physical strength in no way 


reforms them. 


QUESTIONS OF THE NEWLY MARRIED 

There are sometimes delicate questions that 
come up between the newly married. Sometimes 
there is utter inability, or apparent inability to 
consummate the marriage. This may be due to 
two things, either an abnormal condition of the 
female organs, in which case a surgeon should 
be immediately consulted, or, to the fact that the 


MISCELLANEOUS NOTES 165 


husband is an éxceedingly high strung, nervous 
individual. When the latter is the case, and there 
is any difficulty in consummating the marriage, 
there is liable to be a premature discharge of. 
semen, and often many such annoying failures. 
Such a case as this does not require the services 
nor the advice of a physician. Patience and the ex- 
ercise of will power, and the avoidanceof all haste, 


are the only things to be observed. 


RELATIONS OF HUSBAND AND WIFE 
Usually a man’s sexual knowledge is far 


greater than the woman’s. She, under our 
system of training, in a majority of cases, comes 
to her husband with absolutely no hint of what 
the relation of husband and wife means. For 
any husband to unmask that relation at once, fol- 
lowing the excitement and stress of the prepara- 
tion for, and going through the marriage cere- 
mony, is for him to run the risk of impairing 
his entire future happiness. Because a woman 


has been married is no reason for forcing upon 


166 SEXUAL VITALITY 


her something she may be in total ignoratice of, 
and which may have ‘such a psychological effect 
upon her, as to make similar acts forever dis- 
tasteful to her. The courtship has not ended 
with marriage. The parties are simply brought 
into a lost relationship’ from which they may, 
by the proper methods, enter into that complete 
wedding that is the basis of ideal marriage. The 
newly married husband should’ be sufficiently 
master of himself to control his passions,.and. he 
should gain his wife’s complete confidence... Her 
association with him will, in good time, . bring 
her to that state of reciprocity where the con- 
summation of the marriage may~ be. effected, in 
such a manner as to be mutually joyful, stimulat- 


ing and ennobling. 


PHENOMENA ATTENDING CONCEPTION 
There is no doubt but that a majority of the 


readers of this book, are; or will become hus- 
bands and fathers. To be prepated’ for that’ 


function, and to understand ‘what their relations 


MISCELLANEOUS NOTES 167 


to their wives should be under all the circum-° 
stances attending conception, birth and the car- 
ing’ for ‘the ‘child, until it has’ reached’ an age 
where a mother’s care, so far as its physical be- 
ing is: concerned, is no longer necessary, ‘it is 
necessary to: branch off here upon a description 
of:'the: physiological changes: which: take» place™ 
in, the, female, at, and after conception: 
-In.the preceding..chapter. we have gone into. 
the method of. ovulation... Now, when. the. re- 
pined ovum descends into the womb, and_.is met 
there by a spermatazoa, impregnation. occurs. 
There is a diversity of opinion as how the. sper-, 
matazoa comes into contact with the ovum. .Some 
authorities hold that the spermatazoa possess 
sufficiently the power of motion, to propel them- 
selves through the mouth of the womb, and into 
the uterus, where they come in contact with the 
ovum; others contend that during  coition, the 
mouth of the ttterus opens, that there is a profuse ~ 


secretion at that point from the tiny glands that - 


168 SEXUAL VITALITY 


surround it, and that there is a mechanical force 
of sufficient strength to draw up into the uterus 
the semen which may be deposited at the mouth 
of the womb upon the ejaculation of the male. 
Whatever may be true with regard to this, the 
spermatazoa finds its way to the ovum, and im- 
mediately penetrates it. Within a few hours, the 
ovum thus impregnated, attaches itself to the 
walls of the uterus, where it grows fast; as soon 
as this occurs the mouth of the womb becomes 
closed, ovulation is suspended in the ovaries, and 
to all intents and purposes the sexual function of 
the mother is suspended until after birth, and 


the period of lactation is passed. 


CONTROLLING SEX OF OFFSPRING 

Of late years considerable interest has been 
aroused in the subject of control of the sex in 
offspring. Prof. Schenck, a German physician, 
gained considerable notoriety by announcing a 


few years ago that he understood how to effect 


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MISCELLANEOUS NOTES  t¥69 


such control, that parents could have either a 
girl or a boy, as they wished. 

This matter has been understood, to some de- 
gree by animal breeders, for many years, but no 
absolute rule has ever been formulated. At the 
present time it seems to be the general opinion 
of such as have studied the phenomena, that a 
limited diet, vigorous exercise on the part of 
the pregnant woman, a life in the open air,—in 
short all those habits that go with an austere and 
ascetic life, persisted in from the time of concep- 
tion, will, in a majority of cases, be followed by 
the birth of a male. And that high feeding, lei- 
sure, absence of physical exertion during the 
period of gestation, will in a majority of cases, 
result in the birth of a female. This is the theory 
horse and cattle breeders proceed upon, and it is 
the only one that appears to have a scintilla of 


scientific authority to support it. 


ATTITUDE OF HUSBAND TO WIFE 


Women may gratify their husbands’ amorous- 


170 ‘SEXUAL ‘VITALITY: 


ness during the early stages of pregnancy; but it 
is a matter that doesnot need’ proof, thatiin’ all 
cases, save such as» present abnormal degree of 
amorousness, the wife is not-a patticipant in the 
act, in the sense that she shouldbe; and>the»act 
itself. is of more ‘or less detriment to her ‘and: to 
the child she is to bear. Ve 

Following impregnation, there, is.rapid, de+ 
velopment. of the foetus; .The.attachment.to the 
wall of the uterus gradually assumes the form. of 
a sac, in.which, there are. numerous blood vessels, 
through which the embryo may be furnished nu- 


triment.. The blood circulation of the mother 
and infant are practically one, until the child 


leaves the mother’ s body, and it is necessary for 
the mother to be in a healthy condition to have 
a well nurtured body, i in order to bear a healthy 
and vital child. The period necessary for the de- 
velopment of the embryo to the state at which 


birth occurs is about nine lunar months. When, 
for arly reason birth occurs sooner it ig an abor- 
tion ef Nature’s intent, or a miscarriages 


MISCELLANEOUS NOTES | 171 


ACTS THAT BRING SUFFERING” 

Insmodern years the practise of producing 
abortions; or miscarriages ‘has grown’ to a ‘tre 
mendous extent. Justa word is necessary ‘here: 
and perhaps women would not heed’ it if they 
were told it. oyerand,over.again and again; ; No 
woman can interfere with the course of..Nature 
by producing, or submitting to an abortion, with- 
out gravely imperilling her own life. No woman 
who has. ever had an abortion performed. is ever 
after the same physically and mentally as: she: was 
before, She becomes the victim of grave female 
disorders, for which the medical profession, have 
not discovered any cures, 

A practise almost as harmful is that-of seeking. 
to prevent conception... France, asa nation,-has 
endeavored.to control, the birth rate, and>:with: 
what result. the history of the race, and ‘its laws: 
and disorders for.a century testify: The desire 
to prevent conception is‘itself an outrage upon 


the nature and instincts of the race, and would 


172 SEXUAL VITALITY 


produce ill results if it were never the father to 
an act, but the methods by which this is attempted 
result in a vast amount of suffering and the re- 
ducing of women to lower forms intellectually 


and physically. 


PREVENTION OF CONCEPTION WRONG 

There is no safe method of attempting to pre- 
vent conception. Certain physiologists, basing 
their theory upon the monthly maturing of an 
ovum, have set it down as being reasonably safe to 
cohabit during the two weeks midway between the 
periods of menstruation, but time and again con- 
ception has taken place under these circum- 
stances, and the theory fails as often as it is borne 
out by experience. 

Resort to any form of mechanical] device is of 
‘the gravest detriment. With these forms of pre- 
vention there cannot be that completion of the 
act that is necessary for the well being of the 
sexes, and the participants merely subject them- 


selves to unnatural losses for the sake of gratify- 


MISCELLANEOUS NOTES 173 


ing an aborted instinct. Their use is invariably 
followed by inflamed and deranged conditions of 
the sexual tract, which if permitted to continue in 
a short time become chronic and reduce the indi- 
vidual to the estate of a perpetual sufferer. 

In short, Nature seems to have hedged about 
this great function with every safeguard to pre- 
vent it from being abused, and she punishes every 
act that tends to abuse it. Reason and knowledge 
should be the accompaniments of it, and where 
either is lacking there should not be even the op- 
portunity for the gratification that brute instinct 


seeks. 


RULES FOR THE WEDDED 
Unquestionably the healthy, the most economi- 


cal rule for the congress of the sexes, from the 
view point of Nature, which is always economical, 
is for the wedded pair to cohabit at the period 
when Nature has prepared the ovum for impreg- 
nation. That is the object of the function, and 


the changing of it to any other form is a de- 


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parture from law.; It' makes no difference: what 
may be: said -for-it; or what theories advanced in 
its defence, - It is useless to attempt to argue the 
point with a libertine, and if such-read-this book, 
we only have to say, they. have done.and will do 
much ill to themselves and-others, but Nature has 
kindly. set.a barrier to the ill they may do, and the 
sooner. their, potency..ceases the. better. it will be 
for all.concerned.. | 

‘We are. speaking especially. to-those who are 
honest in wanting to know;.and who are intclli- 
gent enough to be guided: by what their own rea- 
son and experience will tell them is right. -Per- 
haps any attempt to hold the race as a general 
thing down to this strict rule would result in as 
great a degree of individual s suffering as it would 
produce general good. There is no question but 
that an improved race would follow, but for those 
who live now, there might be conditions of grave 
import, The gratification of desire on the part 


of the sexes, like the menstrual, function, while 


MISCELLANEOUS: NOTES 175 


not a natrual desire in the beginning, by. long-cus- 
tom has. become such, and must. be recognized..as 
such... It, merely becomes; then, a question as to 
where a curb shall be placed. We have seen-how 
license will bring impotency, how excess wrecks, 
and the reader i iS perhaps more interested i in. the 
question of where the line between gratification 


and license or libertinism exists. 


“INFORMATION FOR GUIDANCE OF 
HUSBAND AND WIFE 


z This is a question some. writers Wee left un- 
answered on the theory that in every, pair of in- 
dividuals different conditions and, different tem- 
peraments, different energies and different physi- 
cal powers are shown. This, in a. measure, is 
true, and it opens the way, for the general state- 
ment, that the weak, those suffering from: a-de- 
pletion. of the physical. and nervous forces, from 
either over-work Or worry, should never permit 
themselves to go in that condition to the sexual 


embrace... Nothing but harm can. result from. it. 


176 SEXUAL VITALITY 


This, of course, means that those suffering from 
energy-devouring diseases, should be careful not 
to sap their little store of vitality by any such at- 
tempts. 


WHAT HYGIENE DEMANDS | 
Then comes the question of to what extent the 


average individuals, husband and wife, of ordi- 
nary health and strength may safely gratify their 
amorousness, without inviting harm. The only 
safe guide is this: Never carry the indulgence 
to the point of producing exhaustion, or a feeling 
following the act of depression and weakness. 
With this guide, each individual or pair should be 
able to determine what is best adapted to their 
individual strength, resisting powers and general 
health. 

It is plain, we take it, to the most ignorant 
reader, that hygiene cannot be conserved by in- 
discriminate intercourse, not by intercourse, when 
the female is in the midst of her menstrual period. 


Perhaps this caution is not needed, but we have 


MISCELLANEOUS NOTES 177 


heard of some brutal husbands, whose distorted 
ideas of their marital rights were such that their 
suffering wives were even made to bear with 
their brutal lust when suffering actual pain, and 
when in such a condition that any excitement of 


the parts might occasion grave septic disorders. 


THE GENERATIVE ACT 
There are a few other points of interest, which 
may as well be discussed here, as elsewhere. Few 
questions are of more practical importance to the 
human race than under what circumstances the 
generative act should be performed. I will give 
my opinion briefly, stating the reasons where they 

are not self-evident or apparent. i 
The generative act should be performed by two 
persons, arrived at a full development of their 
powers, physical and intellectual. At all events, 
this should be the condition of one of the parties 
—better of both. The children of young and im- 


mature parents are apt to be weak and scrofulous. 


178 SEXUAL VITALITY 


Age can not be given as an absolute index of ma- 


turity, and there are some who are never mature. 


LOVE IMPORTANT 
It should be performed with all the attraction 


and charm of a mutual love; and the existence of 
this is the best evidence that the parties are suit- 
ably related to each other; for those similarities 
of constitution, which forbid the marriage of near 
relations, and which often exist without consan- 
guinity, and are sometimes wanting with it, also 
prevent a true love. Hence, marriages of family 
interest, convenience, similarity of tastes, and 
friendship, may be very unfortunate with respect 
to children. Love, and its functions, require a 
mingling of opposite qualities. No man ought 
ever to beget a child for a woman he does not 
love; and, especially, no woman ought ever to 
submit to the sexual embrace of a man, unless 
assured that the union is sanctioned by a mutual 
passion. Every child should be a love-child, and 


this is the only legitimacy that nature knows; and 


MISCELLANEOUS NOTES 179 


this would be the case, if the legal marriage was 
what it always should be, the outward expression 


of an inward reality. 


f 


DISEASED SHOULD ABSTAIN . 

It should not be performed, by either man or 
woman, so as to entail hereditary disease upon 
their offspring. Insanity, scrofula, consumption, 
syphilis, diseased amativeness, deformities of 
body, or distressing singularities of mind, should 


not be entailed upon posterity. 


AVOIDIN G CONCEPTION 
A woman should avoid conception, if her pelvis 
is so small, or so deformed, as to hazard her own 
life in delivery, or destroy that of the child, or 


compel an abortion. 


SEX IN MIND 
Influence of sex runs through the whole mental 
and moral character. Men differ from women 
as much in brain as in body. They have certain 


organs relatively larger, and others relatively 


180 SEXUAL VITALITY 


smaller, than women. The moral organs cor- 
respond intimately with all physical differences. 
There is a vast number of traits of character con- 
nected with the testes and its secretion in the male, 
as well as in the ovaries, uterus, clitoris, and 
mammary glands of the female. No man can 
know what a world of delicate tenderness finds 
its seat in a woman’s swelling bosom; so no 
woman can know all the nobility of manhood that 


centres in the virile organs of the man. 


WOMAN ABUSED 
If we could compare the most masculine 


woman with the most feminine man, there would 
still be a wide difference. But this wide differ- 
ence does not prove that woman was intended to 
be the slave, the tool, and the victim of man, as 
she is and has been. In making her such, man 
wrongs his own nature as much as he wrongs 
hers, and he wrongs the whole human race. If 
man would follow his own pure instincts, woman 


would have nothing to complain of, and nothing 


MISCELLANEOUS NOTES 181 


to desire. By the rights of her love, by the power 
of her beauty, by the strength and tenderness of 
her passional nature, she would be acknowledged 
as the queen of the social universe, while man 
would reign in the sphere of intellect and ma- 
terial achievement. 

We do not exaggerate the perfections of 
woman. We think we know her character, and 
we demand her rights, not so much for her own 
sake as for the sake of all. We can have no true 
social condition until woman finds her much- 
talkked-of “sphere.” 


WHAT IS VIRTUE 

The meaning of the word is manhood, but its 
present application is almost entirely feminine. A 
virtuous woman is one who strictly conforms to 
the customs of society. If unmarried, she is vir-. 
tuous if she refrains from gratifying her sexual 
desires with a man, though she may destroy her- 
self by masturbation. In fact, the most rigid 


prudes, those who repulse all the approaches of 


182 SEXUAL VITALITY 


men the most indignantly, and who condemn all 
freedom in others most violently, are commonly 
those who have destroyed all desire or capacity 
for pleasure in themselves by early and continued 
self-pollution. This is civilized virtue. 

Virtue, in a married woman, is to submit to the 
embraces of a husband she never loved, or has 
ceased to love, and to deny herself to any other. 
A true chastity and a true fidelity are worthy of 
all praise, but there are few things in the world 


more false than what is often considered virtue. 


WOMAN EXPECTED TO BE AN ANGEL 

Owing to the usurped despotism of man over 
woman, the civilized standard of virtue differs 
much in the sexes. A woman is expected to 
come, a chaste virgin, to the arms of her husband; 
but a man would incur ridicule who should make 
such a pretension. A man who indulges in gal- 


9 66 


lantries is “rather gay” ;“a little wild, you know” ; 
“sowing his wild oats”; but is only the more dis- 


tinguished and caressed. Unless coarse, low and 


MISCELLANEOUS NOTES 1838 


excessively profligate, his youthful gallantries are 
no bar to marriage. The same conduct in a 
young woman, if known, drives her from society 
and plunges her into a pit of infamy and despair. 
It is the same, though in a less degree, of married 
men and women. In the upper classes, men have 
less liberty after marriage, and women more; still, 
there is far from being an equality. 

There seem to us to be certain simple, common- 
sense rules, which may apply even amid our social 
discordances and consequent immoralities. 

There should be honesty. Men and women 
should not more deceive each other in love mat- 
ters than in business. If they do, they are 
swindlers and cheats. A simple, frank honesty 
would do much to reform love relations. 

In point of fact, men and women are not on 
equal terms, in the present form of marriage. 
Women have no pecuniary independence, nor, ex- 
cept in rare cases, the means of acquiring it. For 


the most part they are dependent parasites; and, 


184 SEXUAL VITALITY 


though the cares of a family and the bearing of 
children may be equal to any exertions of the 
husband, still the woman, by custom and law, is 
made dependent upon man for support. As long 
as a woman lives in this condition of acknow- 
ledged dependence, she must conform to her hus- 
band’s wishes, and can not exercise the rights of 


a sovereign individual. 


WOMAN SHOULD CHOOSE 

A woman has, naturally, the supreme right of 
choosing who shall be the father of her child; but 
she can have no right to receive the support of 
one man, while she bears a child to another, ex- 
cept by consent. A woman is bound, therefore, 
to be true to her marriage relation, while that re- 
lation exists. She has no more right to cheat 
her husband than a slave has to cheat his master. 
It is true that if love, the sole condition of mar- 
riage, does not exist, it is no marriage in fact, but 
only in form; a mere sham, a legalized adultery, 


a sin against nature and its author. God joins 


MISCELLANEOUS NOTES 185 


people in love; not in simply friendship, not in 
indifference, not in hate and discord, repulsion 
and horror. But if a woman, for any considera- 
tion of property, or children, or worldliness, 
choose to remain in such a relation, she must be 
true to its falsity. 

The duties of a husbind to his wife must be 
reciprocal just as far as their relations are equili- 
brated. In some respects they strikingly differ. 
During a large portion of the time, a child-bear- 
ing woman is not in a condition to allow sexual 
intercourse. A woman has usually no such ex- 
cuse for infidelity. A man, in the sexual act im- 
parts; a woman receives, and possibly retains. 
With the man, the physical consequences termi- 
nate with the act; with the woman, they may re- 
main for months and years. These are evidently 
real differences, which must modify our ideas of 
duty and criminality, in and out the marriage 
relation, and the civilized notions in this respect 


are not entirely destitute of foundation. 


CHAPTER XIV. 
SEXUAL HYGIENE, 

The subject of this chapter covers the ground 
of the most general ignorance and inquiry. In 
a dim way many persons realize the conditions 
and facts set forth in preceding chapters, and 


the question arises, “What shall we do?” 


DIET 
The best advice is to be temperate. Temper- 


ance never produces disorder. The man who 
ceases eating before his appetite is entirely satis- 
fied seldom suffers from disorders of the diges- 
tive organs. We have attempted to show that 
lust, a creature fed on intemperance in sexual 
matters, is the real destroyer of virility. Do not 
permit yourself to become a slave to the monster, 
Avoiding this, or throwing off the bondage if 
you have fallen under it, the rest becomes easy. 
186 ; 


SEXUAL HYGIENE 187 


Systematic daily exercise that will provide nat- 
ural, wholesome, and non-exciting stimulation of 
the muscular portions of the system should be 
regularly practised. 

HABITS 

The habits of eating, sleeping, bathing, should 
likewise be regular. Water is one of most sooth- 
ing agents of Nature, and while its external use, 
beyond its cleansing functions, may not contri- 
bute any remedial elements, it allays influcations, 
relieves congestion, and aids the organs of the 


body to re-establish their normal functions. 


WATER 
Besides bathing often and regularly, every in- 


dividual should drink a sufficient quantity of pure 
water. Most persons fail to do this, as they fail 
to breathe as much air as the body requires to 
carry on its ceaseless activities. Habits of drink- 
ing at regular intervals, and stated quantities, 
will be found beneficial in a great many cases. 


In all cases of derangement of the sexual or- 


188 SEXUAL VITALITY 


gans, the internal bath, or colon flushing, for 
the rectum, is a beneficial measure. It serves to 
relieve the congested parts from pressure, be- 
sides allaying inflammations, and cleansing the 
colon of poisonous matters. 

In cases of acute inflammation of the parts, due 
to such diseases as are manifested locally, the 
forms of hydropathic treatment are very effica- 


cious. 


GONNORRHOEA 
Gonnorrhoea is a local disease, and cleansing 


the urethra with frequent injections of warm 
water, and applying cold water packs externally 


is one of the best treatments. 


SYPHILIS 
In attacks of syphilis, the disease being con- 


stitutional, the treatment must be such. A diet 
largely vegetarian, and observance of all the 
strength building rules heretofore mentioned, to- 
gether with every means you can employ for com- 


pletely oxygenating the blood in the lungs, is the 


SEXUAL HYGIENE 189 


best form of treatment. A good physician should 
be consulted at once when this disease appears. It 
usually manifests itself by an external lesion, 
and no chances should be taken. 

Diet is a matter of considerable importance. 
One should never eat food that taxes the powers 
in its digestion, or that tends to produce constipa- 
tion. A mixed diet, with plenty of uncooked 
vegetables and fruits, is the best. Highly sea- 
soned dishes, sugary and starchy foods should be 
eaten very sparingly. And tea, coffee, liquors, 
tobacco, and all nerve exciting drugs should be 


eschewed entirely. 


FOR LOCAL INFLAMATIONS 
In all disorders affecting the testes and ovaries, 


suck as inflammation, varicocele, intuoles, swell- 
ings, etc., the best course to pursue, is to abso- 
lutely avoid the least sexual excitement, until the 
trouble is overcome. Where the testes are af- 
fected, a support should be worn while the acute 


stage of the trouble continues. Two or three 


190 SEXUAL VITALITY 


times daily,acold sitz bath should betaken, lasting 
from one to three minutes, and a thick, wet cloth 
should be bound over the parts on retiring, and 
allowed to remain all night. Varicocele, which 
is an enlargement of one of the veins of the scro- 
tum, cannot be overcome speedily, and this treat- 
ment, together with light stimulating exercises 
must be persisted in for several months to effect 


a cure, 


CHAPTER XV. 
CHASTITY. 

Among the many erroneous things promul- 
gated with regard to the sexual function, none 
has been productive of more harm than that 
which is held among a vast majority of the un- 
educated,—that the exercise of the function is 
absolutely necessary to health. As soon as a boy 
is old enough to meet with his fellows in school, 
or in business, his mind is assailed by this per- 
nicious theory, and he is led to believe that his 
lack of developing in any manly direction is due 
to the lack of exercise of this function. So he 
is made a recruit for the places of prostitution, 
and led to offer his body a sacrifice to some or 
all of the loathsome diseases that have their ori- 
gin there. There is assuredly need for some 
plain speaking on this particular point for the 

191 


192 SEXUAL VITALITY 


benefit of those who may still possess their nat- 
ural gift of manhood, without having impaired 


it as so many thousands do by wrong acts. 


NATURE’S PROVISIONS 

At a glance it seems strange that nature should 
have provided for the visitation of such severe 
penalities upon the gratification of the sexual 
instincts outside of the married state, and at the 
same time have rendered their gratification uader 
proper hygienic, and sanitary conditions, bene- 
ficial, and healthful. Because of the presence 
of the desire, some writers on the subject have 
placed the gratification of this desire on the same 
plane as the gratification of appetite for food. 
They claim that both are essential. We hope 
that those who have read the preceding chapters 
of this book, and understand something about 
the physiology of the sexual system, will be able 
to see clearly the error of such teaching as this. 
Some of these writers have gone so far as to con- 


jure up imaginary cases of horrible aspects, due, 


CHASTITY 1938 


so they claim, to sexual starvation. These voice 
the blind, superstititous belief of that great un- 
der-mass that knows desire, but knows nothing 


of its laws of proper expression. 


NO SEXUAL STARVATION 

A little examination of the claims of this the- 
ory will convince any one against it. We chal- 
lenge any person, professional or otherwise, to 
produce a caseof theso-called “sexual starvation,” 
where conditions inimical to health resulted from 
failure to periodically gratify the sexual desire. 
The desire for sexual congress can not in any 
way be likened to the desire for food. One de- 
sires food daily. It is necessary for the support 
of the body, for the production of energy, for 
keeping all the functions of the body properly 
working. The sexual desire, on the contrary 
is a sporadic one. It is not present with the un- 
varying regularity of the desire for food, save in 
such persons, as have completely distorted and 


changed their nature. It is a desire dependent 


194 SEXUAL VITALITY 


upon something outside of the individual’s own 
body—some exciting cause. A thought, in- 
duced by some pictured object, or by the appear- 
ance of a member of the opposite sex. The tak- 
ing of food, to carry the comparison further, re- 
sults in building up the body. Every act of sex- 
ual congress, in greater or less degree, produces 


debility and destruction. 


STIMULATION OF THE IN STINCT 

As stated in a previous chapter, sexual instincts 
in both sexes are in a condition to be manifested, 
when the proper environment offers, when the re- 
spective ages reach puberty. In the case of the 
male, there are certain distinct manifestations 
in connection with this period, as we have pointed 
out previously, but none of them point emphati- 
cally to the fact that there is a physiological de- 
mand for the exercise of the function. Too early 
an exercise of the sexual organs of the youth, 
however, they be made, will result in stunting | 


the growth, retarding the mental development, 


CHASTITY 195 


and produce various physical derangements be- 
sides. In some cases it kills outright. For this 
same reason, masturbation is condemned by phy- 
sicians and moralists, for the great physical evil 
it works in its victims. Its effects are not a whit 
less disastrous in the case of the immature youth 
than the use of the sexual organs in a natural 
way, during the adolescent period. The only 
difference between the two forms of indulgence, 
is that masturbation presents a constant oppor- 
tunity, absent in most cases of youthful indul- 


gence in prostitution. 


CHASTITY BENEFICIAL 

That it is possible for the youth, or the mature 
man to carry himself for indefinite periods with- 
out resorting to the indulgence of the instinct, is 
convincingly proved. Thousands have done it 
and instead of imparing their energy, strength, or 
virility have greatly increased them all. The most 
perfectly developed, and greatest resisting indi- 


viduals are thore who pass through the trying 


196 SEXUAL VITALITY 


period of youth without weakening themselves by 
any gratification of the sexual instinct whatever. 
Such individuals excel in bodily development, in 
mental force, and in all those powers that go to 
make the complete man. 


THEORIES 

Those who oppose the idea of chastity, argue 
that when the age of puberty arrives, the manu- 
facture of semen begins in the testes, and that 
there must be an avenue for its discharge or de- 
triment will result. We need only to point such 
reasoners to the animals, which are reared under 
conditions that make it impossible for them to 
gratify this instinct, and they are invariably fine 
specimens. When a stdllion, for instance, is put 
to the stud, he is no longer useful as a race horse, 
in which pursuit there is a demand for the great- — 
est degree of energy, vim and physical power. 
Deterioration in these particulars begin when he 
enters the list of breeders. Another strong argu- 


inent against this idea is found in the carefuliy 


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collected results of physicians, who have made a 
study of the subject. From statistics collected 
by these it appears that the youth who has con- 
scientiously avoided the gratification of his desire 
in every shape and manner, is virtually free from 


nocturnal emissions, 


THE LAW OF DESIRE 

The law stands that with respect to this desire, 
and its gratification, the mind is the master. 
That lust kept from a foothold in its precincts, 
purity and chastity and all the blessings that ac- 
company them are certain. A clean mind, prop- 
perly drilled, and taught to direct intelligently 
the acts of the body and desire, is a servant that 
will not even trouble with its appearance and 
will not occasion any great effort to keep it in con- 
trol. The youth, or man, who desires to so bridle 
and curb, lust and desire, must abstain from in- 


toxicants, from drugs, from heating foods, and 


198 SEXUAL VITALITY 


live a regular life, in which exercise is regularly 


taken, and there is constant and intelligent care 
of the body, with regard to bathing, and the 
regular performance of its function of the de- 


purating organs. 
DR. TRALL’S OPINIOW 
Dr. Trall, who went deeply into this subject, 


says: “One may so live as to keep all his lower 
propensities in a state of preternatural excite- 
ment, and mistaking the insatiate cravings of 
morbid instinct for a natural necessity, soon ex- 
haust the power of life by inordinate indulgence. 
Such has been the history of thousands who have 
applied to me for advice. Had they been proper- 
ly directed in early life, their history would have 
been different. The more these desires are stimu- 
lated, the stronger they become, until any refusal 
of gratification will seem to result in serious dis- 
order of the procreative organs. Yet such dis- 
orders betoken a no more diseased state of these 


organs than did the constant excitation and de- 


CHASTITY 199 


mand for relief. A habit has been acquired of 
unnatural activity in the testicular glands, so that 
the spermatic vessels become congested with the 
seminal secretion, and the secretion produces a 
sense of relief. But no sooner are the congested 
vessels emptied than they begin to fill at once, and 
again reach a state of congestion. They must be 
restored to their normal action,and that cannot be 
done by continuing or further increasing their 
activity. Excessive gratification, either in a natu- 
ral or unnatural way, tends to derangement and 
premature impotency.” 

Most of the seeming demands for the gratifi- 
cation of the sexual instinct among men, married 
and unmarried, are due to false notions and false 
modes of living, and uncleanliness of the sexual 
organs, or the colon. Frequent and thorough 
bathing of the parts in cold water will remove 
accumulations of irritating substances, and tend 
to allay inflammations. Sponging off the parts 


with cold water twice a day, and in cases where 


200 SEXUAL VITALITY 


there is any weakened condition of the system, 
a daily sitz bath of from eight to fifteen minutes’ 


duration will be found very efficacious. 


CURE FOR IMPURE THOUGHTS 

In this connection, it is perhaps well to quote 
a few words by Dr. Dio Lewis, who was one of 
the foremost authorities on this subject. He said, 
anent the necessity for controlling the mind. and 
avoiding the harboring of lascivious thoughts: 

“Where one person is injured by sexual com- 
merce, many are made nervous and feverish by 
harboring lewd thoughts. Rioting in visions of 
nude women may exhaust one as much as an 
excess in actual intercourse. This species of in- 
dulgence is well-nigh universal, and as it is the 
source of all the other forms, the fountain from 
which other vices spring, the nursery of mastur- 
bation and prostitution, it is surprising that so 
little has been said about it.” The following 
was the advice he gave to a patient, troubled with 
impure thoughts: 


CHASTITY 201 


“Fix it in your mind that a sensual idea is 
harmful ; then the instant one comes it will startle 
you. By an effort of will, change the subject im- 
mediately. You can do this if you are in earnest. 
Set such an alarm in your mind that if the las- 
civious thought occurs when you are asleep it will 
waken you. A number of persons have tried this 
method and found it effective. Each effort will 
be easier, until after a week or two you will have 
complete control of your thoughts, and you will 


feel much more like a man, and be more like one.” 


CELIBACY 

In connection with this subject of chastity, an- 
other suggests itself. What about celibacy, sin- 
gle blessedness; living alone? This question has 
occupied many minds. Some unhesitatingly pro- 
nounce it false, unnatural and unhealthy for 
either man or woman. Others contend that there 
is no degree of ill health attendant upon it. We 
incline to this latter belief. When the thought is 


right, one may live in that state as long, and be 


202 SEXUAL VITALITY 


as healthy as any other individual. Indeed some 
of the statistics seem to indicate that celibacy 
is conducive to longevity. Be that as it may, 
there are certain conditions, under which it is ab- 
solutely imperative. And the public should be 
quickly schooled to that idea. Any man or 
woman that suffers from a wasting disease, that 
has any deformity, or, who is not in a position 
to properly take care of children, to provide them 
that environment that would afford them an op- 
portunity for proper development, should not 
think of marrying, and consequently should not 


undertake the gratification of the sexual instinct, 


WHO SHOULD REMAIN SINGLE 
That both men and women are happier in the 
married state, there can be no doubt, and we 
recommend it, but in every instance, it is recom- 
mended for the wholly strong, those capable of 
becoming parents and providing for families— 


not merely begetting offspring that shall be 


CHASTITY 263 


lower in the scale of being than many brutes. 
Such persons commit a heinous crime. 

There are many pleasures for the celibate, that 
may be enjoyed by those who are in circum- 
stances of health, or otherwise, that prevent them 
from being proper candidates for matrimony. 
Their minds are free from family cares; they 
are not subjected to the stresses of passion and 
emotion that are the lot of those who wed. Ac- 
quaintance with a great many unmarried persons 
of both sexes whose high spirits, fine appearance, 
and good temper, show that they are of the 
healthiest types, indicate that in the matter of 
health, they are as greatly favored as any of the 


race. 


CHAPTER XVI. 
GENERAL HINTS. 


Any work intended to be of practical value to 
the individual would not be complete without in- 
cluding in its pages the directions for building 
strength and virility. The expression of Opinion 
on the various subjects treated herein are valuable 
as educating the reader regarding the powers and 
limitations of his own body. Having familiar- 
ized himself with these, the next step is to begin 
the development of such attributes as are desir- 
able, and especially preparing the body to manu- 
facture and preserve energy in the greatest de- 
gree. To that end, we have included in this 
work, a chapter, in which is set forth a simple, 
easy, but scientific and highly effective system of 
physical culture, which can be advantageously 
employed in connection with the hygienic regu- 

204 


GENERAL HINTS 205 


lations laid down in other chapters. Bear in 
mind that a sound body is the best temple of a 
sound mind, and that the healthier and stronger 
your body is the better prepared it is for produc- 
ing energy, or for resisting the attacks of dis- 
eases, or counterbalancing the effects of weaken- 
ing influences. We strongly recommend the 
readers of this volume to begin at once the prac- 
tise of the exercises illustrated and explained in 
the concluding chapter, and we can assure them 
that the more faithfully they perform those gen- 
eral body building and circulation stimulating ex- 
ercises, the quicker will be their improvement in 
other directions. 

‘These exercises will provide a method too, for 
offsetting the baneful influences of too sedantary 
a life in the case of children in schools, or persons 


engaged in office employments. 


EXERCISE A REMEDY 
The researches of scientists into the causes of 


the vices whose baneful effects we have referred 


206 SEXUAL VITALITY 


to elswhere, and which have made so many per- 
sons slaved and subjects, can best be combated 
by mild stimulation of the general physical pow- 
ers, without reference to particularly strengthen- 
ing the sexual system, and in all cases where the 
trouble threatened rather than manifestly present, 
we can emphatically say that a careful, consistent 
course of physical training, with this system as 
the foundation, pursued to the extent of produc- 
ing a mild degree of fatigue each day will give 
one quick and complete mastery of the mind, 
and aid in driving out the impure thoughts that 
are so potent of evil. 


INDOLENCE A BREEDER OF VICE 

It has been found that the greatest degree of 
vice and depravity, with reference to population, 
exists in those communities where there is least 
physical development, and the least expression 
of energy along purely physical lines. Where 
environment and conditions make necessary a life 


of considerable activity we find the nearest ap- 


GENERAL HINTS 207 


proaches to that chastity that should be the prac- 
tise of all, and as we approach nearer and nearer 
to those warm enervating climes where life is 
easily maintained, and hardships and bodily fa- 
tigue are seldom required, there is a tremendous 
increase in vice, and its attendant ills, and dis- 


eases. 


PROGRESS SLOW BUT SURE 

We can not say to readers of this book that the 
pursuance of the simple exercises, alone, shown 
in a previous chapter, and the constant practise of 
the bathing and other hygienic agencies that we 
have recommended in the treatment and develop- 
ment of those troubles will result in hasty perma- 
nent cures, if practised without the assistance of 
other body building methods. But we can state 
that if a consistent system of body stimulation is 
entered upon, and persistently followed, in time 
the worst cases of sexual debility and derange- 
ment can be eventually overcome. We do not 


desire to raise false hopes in the breasts of the un- 


208 SEXUAL VITALITY 


fortunate by stating to them that they can easily 
become the strongest specimens of their race, but 
they may be healthy, and add many years to their 
lives by taking the course here prescribed. It 
will require persistence in the line of endeavor 
outlined here. Some cases will unquestionably 
quickly react, and there will be apparent hasty re- 
covery ; but some cases, where conditions have be- 
come chronic, it will require persistence, and per- 
severance for many months before the longed for 
results will follow. The reader must bear in 
mind that the undermining process required many 
months, and years to bring the sufferer to his 
present condition, and that rehabilitation by nat- 
ural methods will of necessity be slow. Cell by 
cell, certain portions of the body will have to be 
repaired, and new tissues built up, and as this is 
done, general improvement of a gradual sort will 


be noticed. 


FOR THOSE PAST FORTY 


There are cases in which too much exercise 


GENERAL HINTS 209 


will be of detriment. It is difficult to point these 
out because hard to know the needs of every in- 
dividual. In general terms we would state the 
following advice: In all cases of debility of the 
sort we have been speaking of in this book, that 
exists in men who have passed the age of forty 
years, systematic exercise for the stimulation of 
the sexual tract, the employment of the sitz and 
friction baths (the latter taken by rubbing the 
lower part of the abdomen, the thighs and the 
external organs with a wet cloth) will be found 
‘invariably beneficial. In stich cases the instruc- 
tions if followed carefully will invariably bring 


results. 


CHAPTER XVII. 


MOMENTUM-INERTIA EXERCISES 
A powerful physique is by no means a certain 


indication of great sexual power. Indeed, there 
are professional strong men and well-known 
athletes before the public to-day who are known 
to be impotent, but all other things being equal, 
the more robust and perfectly muscled a man is, 
the stronger and more enduring his sexual 
power. 

Physical exercise is an absolute necessity. Its 
principal value lies in its effect on the circulation 
of the blood. It plays an important role in the 
maintenance of sexual power. 

We present herewith a complete system of 
exercise for the development’ of the entire body, 
a system which we know to be the most effective 
now before the public. The system was devised 


210 


MOMENTUMSINERTIA EXERCISES 211 


by Prof. Paul von Boeckmann, the well-known 
physical culturist. 
It is known as the Momentum-Inertia System. 


THE MOMENTUM-INERTIA SYSTEM 
OF EXERCISES 


By P. Von Boeckmann 

In my correspondence courses of physical 
training, I have employed, with marked success, 
for a number of years, a series of exercises which 
I termed “tonic exercises.”’ The object of these 
movements is to stimulate the important nerve 
centres, and to promote general blood circulation. 
I have found “tonic exercises” so vastly superior 
to any other form of physical exercise, not only 
as a means of invigorating the entire body, but 
also for the development of the most desirable 
type of muscular tissue, that I have devised a 
complete system, or series of exercises, suited to 
the development of the entire body, based upon 
the physiological principles that underlie the tonic 


exercises. 


212 SEXUAL VITALITY 


I term this new and original system the 
“Momentum-Inertia” system, as the movements 
are based on the well-known principles of 


mechanics—momentum and inertia. 


BLOOD CIRCULATION 
The Momentum-INeErtIA system of exercises 


differs from all other systems, in that every mo- 
tion consists of sudden alternate muscular con- 
tractions and relaxations. From careful observa- 
tion, with the aid of the sphygmograph, I have 
found that with the Momentum-INERTIA system 
of exercise the blood circulation is assisted, not 
retarded, as in many forms of exercises without 
apparatus, now so much in vogue. The retarda- 
tion of circulation is especially noticeable in such 
exercises as necessitate a muscle remaining in a 
tense or flexed state, during several successive 


heart beats. 


PLIABLE MUSCLES 
My system has been thoroughly tested upon 


thousands of pupils, and I, myself, stand as an 


MOMENTUM-INERTIA EXERCISES 213 


example of its splendid tonic and muscle-produc- 
ing effects. Though my muscles are as hard as 
steel when contracted, they are as soft as a babe’s 
when relaxed—a condition that has caused much 
wonder and astonishment among the scores of 
medical and other experts who have examined 


me. 


ENDURANCE 
As an example of the great advantage of such 


a physiological condition of the muscles, I cite 
the following test—one of many I have made. I 
can hold my arm at full length from the shoulder, 
horizontal to the floor, from half to three-quarters 
of an hour, without experiencing the least pain, 
cramping, etc. With a majority of persons, in- 
cluding alleged strong men, usually five minutes 
is sufficient to cause intense pain, which is due 
entirely to strangulation of the blood vessels. 
MoMENTUM-INERTIA exercises must be per- 
formed with a sudden snap—that is, the move- 


ments should be quick and vigorous, just as if 


aware 


214 SEXUAL VITALITY 


you were striking an imaginary object and sud- 
denly check the blow. 

Exercise No. 1 is the key to all the movements 
that follow. Therefore, thoroughly master this 
exercise, observing every point mentioned in 
connection with it. Perform all the exercises in 
a similar manner, as far as your strength and 
physical condition will allow. It may be advis- 
able in some cases to execute certain movements 


with one arm at a time, instead of both together. 


MOMENTUM-INERTIA EXERCISES. 215 


Exercise No. 1 is the key to all the movements 
that follow. Therefore, thoroughly master this 
exercise, observing every point mentioned in con- 
nection with it. Perform all the exercises in a 
similar manner, as far as your strength and physi- 
cal condition will allow. It may be advisable in 
some cases to execute certain movements with one 
arm at a time, instead of both together. 


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EXERCISE 1—Assume position as indicated by 
dotted lines in Fig. 1. Hands partly closed, 
palms inward, backs of fingers touching lightly. 
Suddenly strike downward with great force, 
keeping the arms straight and fingers bent. 
When the arms reach the position indicated by 
the solid lines, suddenly check the blow, keeping 


216 MOMENTUM-INERTIA EXERCISES. 


the arms rigid for an instant. Slowly bring the 
arms over the head, then repeat the movement 
until signs of fatigue are felt. The value of the 
exercise is lost if the arms are brought down in 
a haphazard manner. The blow and its termi- 
nation must be made with a snap. Make one 
blow every three seconds, 


EXERCISE 2—Assume position as indicated by 
solid lines in Fig. 1. Reverse Exercise I, that 
is, strike upward with the arms, checking the 
blow suddenly, so that the fingers barely collide. 


MOMENTUM-INERTIA EXERCISES. 217 


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EXERCISE 4—Assume position as indicated in 
solid lines in Fig. 2. Movement same as Exer- 


cise 2 (hands changed). 


218 MOMENTUM-INERTIA EXERCISES, 


Fig. 3 


EXERCISE 5—Assume position as indicated in 
dotted fines in Fig. 3. Movement same as Exer- 
cise I (hands changed). 


Exercise 6—Assume position as indicated by 
solid lines in Fig 3. Movements same as Exer- 
cise 2 (hands changed). 


MOMENTUM-INERTIA EXERCISES. 219 


Fig. 4 


ExeRcIsE 7—Stand as shown in Fig. 4, hands 
gently touching. Strike backward, keeping the 
arms straight and checking the blow when po- 
sition as shown in Fig. 5 is attained. Observe 
same rules as in Exercise I. 


220 MOMENTUM-INERTIA EXERCISES. 


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EXERCISE 8—Reverse Exercise 7, striking for- 
ward instead of backward. 


MOMENTUM-INERTIA EXERCISES. 221, 


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ExercIsE 9—Assume position as indicated by 
dotted lines in Fig. 6. Strike downward as 
shown. Observe previous rules. Note position 
of the hands. 


EXERCISE 10—Reverse Exercise 9, that is, 
strike upward. 


232 MOMENTUM-INERTIA EXERCISES. 


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EXERCISE 12—Reverse of Exercise 11. 


MOMENTUM-INERTIA EXERCISES. 228 


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EXERCISE 13—Assume position as indicated in 
dotted lines in Fig 8. Execute as Exercises 9 
and 11. Note position of the hands. 


EXERCISE 14—Reverse of Exercise 13. 


224 MOMENTUM-INERTIA EXERCISES. 


Fig. 9 


EXERCISE 15—Assume position as indicated in 
dotted lines in Fig 9. Execute on the- same 


principle as previous exercises, bringing the 
hands close to the chest. 


EXERCISE 16—Reverse of Exercise 1 5: 


MOMENTUM-INERTIA EXERCISES. 225 


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EXERCISE 17—Assume position as indicated by 
dotted lines in Fig. 10. Execute movement same 
as in Exercise 15. Note position of the hands. 


EXERCISE 18—Reverse of Exercise 17. 


EXERCISE 19—Sare as Exercise 17, but with 
palms downward. 


EXERCISE 20—Reverse of Exercise rg. 


226 MOMENTUM-INERTIA EXERCISES, 


Fig. 11 


EXERCISE 21—Asstume position as indicated by 
dotted lines in Fig. 11. Hands open and touch- 
ing lightly. Strike downward as shown, extend- 
ing the fingers. 


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EXERCISE 22—Assume position as indicated by 
dotted lines in Fig. 12. Strike downward with 
the hands so that they almost touch the chest, 
keeping the fingers extended. 

EXERCISE 23—Reverse of Exercise 22. 


228 MOMENTUM INERTIA EXERCISES. 


Fig. 13 
EXERCISE 24—Assume position as indicated by 
dotted lines in Fig. 13, keeping the fist clenched 


Strike forward as shown. (Do not reverse this 
exercise. ) 


MOMENTUMSINERTIA EXERCISES. 229 


Fig. 14 


EXERCISE 25—~Assume position as indicated by 
dotted lines in Fig. 14. Fingers touching lightly. 
Strike downward as snown. 


EXERCISE 26—Reversz of Exercise 25. 


230 MOMENTUM-INERTIA EXERCISES. 


Fig, 15 


EXERCISE 27—Alternately swing the arms up- 
ward and downward as shown in F ig. 15, check- 


ing the movement suddenly at the end of each 
swing, 


MOMENTUM-INERTIA EXERCISES. 231 


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EXERCISE 28—Walk forward, alternately strik- 
ing with the right and left hand at an imaginary 
point in front and on the level with the face. 
When striking with the left hand, step forward 
with the left foot; when striking with the right 
hand, step forward with the right foot. 


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half circle, 


MOMENTUM-INERTIA EXERCISES. 2383 


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EXERCISE 30—Stand as shown by the solid 
lines in Fig. 18. Raise the left foot off the 4oor 
and allow the body to fall forward, suddenly 
checking the fall of the body when position as in- 
dicated by the dotted lines is attained. (In the 
dotted figure the left foot is in front.) 


EXERCISE 31—Reverse Exercise 30, placing the 
right foot and right arm in front. 


234 MOMENTUM-INERTIA EXERCISES, 


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EXERCISE 32—Assume position as indicated by 
dotted lines in Fig. 19 (hands over the head). 
Strike downward to position indicated when the 
arms are parallel with the floor. Check the 
movement at this point an instant, then strike 
downward as indicated by the solid lines, keeping 
the knees as straight as possible. 


EXERCISE 33—Reverse Exercise 32. 


MOMENTUM-INERTIA EXERCISES. 235 


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EXERCISE 34—Stand as indicated by solid lines 
in Fig. 20. Raise the right foot off the floor and 
allow the body to fall forward, checking the fall 
when the position indicated by the dotted lines is 
attained. 


EXERCISE 35—Reverse Exercise 34, bringing 
the left foot forward. 


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EXERCISE 36—Stand as indicated by solid lines 
in Fig. 21. Suddenly throw the right foot back, 
checking the fall of the body when the position 
indicated by the dotted lines it attained. 


EXERCISE 37—Reverse Exercise 36, threwing 
back the left foot. 


MOMENTUM-INERTIA EXERCISES. 237 


Fig. 22 


EXERCISE 38—Stand as indicated by solid lines 
in Fig. 22. Throw the right foot back, checking 
the fall of the body when the position indicated 
by the dotted lines is attained. 


EXERCISE 39—Reverse Exercise 38, throwing 
back the left foot. 


238 MOMENTUM-INERTIA EXERCISES. 


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EXERCISE 40—Assume position as indicated by 
solid lines in Fig. 23. Drop the body as indi- 
cated by the dotted lines, checking the fall when 
the left knee almost touches the floor. In bring- 
ing the arms downward allow them to drop side- 


ways, not forward. 


EXERCISE 41—Reverse Exercise 40, bringing 
the right knee near the floor 


MOMENTUM-INERTIA EXERCISES. 239 


Fig. 24 
EXERCISE 42—Alternately throw the body from 
one side to the other as indicated in Fig. 24, sud- 


denly checking the movements as previously de- 
scribed. 


240 MOMENTUM-INERTIA EXERCISES, 


Fig, 25 


EXERCISE 43—Assume position as indicated by 
the solid lines in Fig. 25. Allow the body to 
drop forward as shown, suddenly checking the 
fall. 


EXERCISE 44—Assume position as indicated by 
the dotted lines in Fig. 25. Suddenly raise the 
body erect as illustrated. By bracing the feet 
under some object the movement can be checked 
suddenly, 


MOMENTUM-INERTIA EXERGISES. 241 


EXERCISE 45—Rapidly swing the body from 
side to side as illustrated in Fig. 26, keeping the 
legs straight and the hands as near the floor as 
possible. 


242 MOMENTUM-INERTIA EXERCISES 


Fig, 27 


EXERCISE 46—Alternately bring the knees 
rapidly up as illustrated in Fig. 27, suddenly 
checking the movement when the knee has 
reached the highest point, 


MOMENTUM INERTIA EXERCISES, 2438 


Fig. 28 


EXERCISE 47—Shrug the shoulders rapidly and 
forcibly as shown in Fig. 28. 


244 MOMENTUM-INERTIA EXERCISES. 


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Exercise 48—Lock the hands behind the back 
as indicated by the solid lines in Pigs 207") Suds 
denly contract the muscles of the back and throw 
the shoulders back as indicated by the dotted 
lines. This exercise is especially valuable in pre- 
venting round shoulders, 


MOMENTUM INERTIA EXERCISES. 245 


Fig. 30 


EXERCISE 49—Balance yourself by holding to a 
chair, bringing the leg out as indicated by the 
dotted lines in Fig. 30. Suddenly swing the left 
leg downward and in front of the right leg as il- 
lustrated, suddenly checking the movement. Re- 
verse exercise for the right leg, 


246 MOMENTUM-INERTIA EXERCISES. 


Fig. 31 


EXERCISE 50—Execute the movement de- 
scribed in Fig. 31 on the same principle as fxer- 
cise 49. Also reverse the exercise by kicking 
backward as well as forward. 


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Uncocked Foods and How to Use Them 


With Recipes for Wholesome Preparations, Combinations, 
and Menus, and the Reason Uncooked Food is Best fior the 
Promotion of Health, Strength and Vitality, by Mr. and 
Mrs. Eugene Christian, with introduction by W. R. C. 
Latson, M.D. Illustrated, 12 mo., fine extra cloth binding. 

The first and only complete and comprehensive work 
on the use of Uncooked Foods ever published, and will sup- 
ply a demand that is being felt for definite and practical 
information on this subject. It is one of the most import- 
ent contributions to the all-important question of right 
living that has ever been written, there being no work 
containing the information given in this. 


A PRACTICAL WORK 


It not only. shows why food should be taken in its 
pure, unchanged, natural forms, without having wasted 
anything in the processes of cooking, but also shows how 
this theory and method of living can be made effective in 
a practical and attractive way. Definite suggestions are 
given as to how to begin the use of uncooked foods, as to 
what may be substituted for cooked foods at first, what 
foods should be combined for the best results, and the 
greatest pleasure to be derived from eating. While it is 
devoted to the questions invofvéd in the use of uncooked 
foods, it takes a broad viewof the diet question and offers 
many practical suggestions for the guidance of those who 
are interested in right living. 

A general idea of the scope of the work may be 
gathered from the following 


TABLE OF CONTENTS 


PART I. 
Introduction, 
“Why This Book was Written.” 
“The Problem of Prohlems.”’ 
‘The Functlons of Foods.’’ 
*-Food Products.’”’ 
‘Raw Foods.”’ 
“aga Remedy.” 
“Kconomy and Simplicity.’ 
«The Emancipation of Woman.”’ 
“The Secretion of Foods.’’ 
‘Food Combinations.’’ 
“Preparation of Foods.’’ 
«‘Preparation of Uncooked Foods.” 
“Effect of Cooking Food.”’ 
“Cooking Milk.” 
‘‘Pleeh Foods.”’ 
“Nuts.” *Fruits.’’ 
“Cereals.’? Vcgetables.’’ 
“‘Bread—Fermentation.”’ 
“Condiments.” 
‘How to Eat.’ 
“‘Mastication.”? 
“Food Values, with Tablos.’’ 
‘Feeding of Children.’’ 


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How to Begin in the Use of Uncooked Foods, 
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Creams. 

Fruit and Fruit Dishes, 
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Evaporated Fruits. 

Jellies. 

Cakes and Puddings, 

Ice Cream and Ices. 

Cheese and Junket, 

Drinks. 

Menus for One Week, 

Banquet Menus, 


the most from eating, in health, 


strength, vitality, endurance and pleasure, as well as a 
saving in time, labor and expense, read ‘and follow the 


suggestions given in 


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wrecked and Rescued 


How Strength and Vigor is Lost, and How 
Manhood May he Restored by Self-Treatment 


By DR. W. J. HUNTER 


This is a most timely and important work, by one who has 
made a careful study of the subjec:, and brings to bens a thorough 
knowledge of general and sexual hygiene. For the want of the 
knowledge on sexual subjects this book contains, many men are 
on a downward course, and by the use of it many could be saved 
from sexual weakness. We cannot better describe this work, 
which has received the highest praise from competent critics, than 
to publish the following from the 


TABLE OF CONTENTS 


THE WRECK.—Primeval man—His dignity and purity—Causes 
of the wreck—Ignorance of natural law—Sexual perversions the 
crowning cause—Touches more than half the race—When sexual 
passion abates in man, 

AN ANCIENT WRECK.—Sensuality the sin of the ages—The 
old devil of sensuality —Sensuality in the patriarchal age. 

A MODERN WRECK.—The history of prostitution—The doc- 
trine of chastity—A sta tling testimony—The blood of the race 
poisoned by venereal diseases—Thirty theusand men daily infected 
in the United States—Hi-tory of venereal diseases. 

A YOUTHFUL WRECK—Masturbation—-Puberty; its indica- 
tions and sequerice—Prevalence of the solitary v'ce—Impossible to 
exaggerate its ruinous results—Testimeny of medical experts and 
of educationists—Effects on the nervous system explained—No 
medicine required to cure. 

THE RESCUE BEGUN.—Dces nature forgive ?—Natural lawis 
God’s method of operation— Nature repairs end restores—No 
medicine is needed—Cut loose from charlatans—Burn their pam ph- 
lets—High medical testimony that medicine is not required—Is 
marriage a cure?—The question answered—A cure as certain as 
the rising of the sun é 

THE RESCUE COMPLETED —The medical profession—8e- 
ware of medical companies and sharks—The parts affected—The 
principal aggravating cause of seminal weakness—Special treat- 
ment without expense—An absolutely infallible remedy. 


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